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Rob Parton
Bio
Rob Parton, one of Chicago’s busiest and versatile
trumpet players, is well known and highly regarded as a studio/theatre/jazz
musician, performer-educator and band-leader.
As a jazz musician, Parton performs over 250 Jazz trio
dates a year as the featured artist at Chicago's Catch 35. The list of
musicians who have played in the Rob Parton Trio is like a who's who in
Chicago Jazz. Parton performs weekly from Tuesday through Saturday.
As a studio musician, Parton has played on hundreds of
both local and national radio and television commercials and many local
CD projects not only as lead trumpet but as contractor. Parton has performed
with the Chicago Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Chicagoland Pops Orchestra,
Doc Severinson, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mel Torme, Beach Boys,
Christopher Cross, Sheena Easton, Peabo Bryson, Celine Dion, Nick Carter,
Yolanda Adams, Josh Groban, Enrique Eglasius, Natalie Cole and Maynard
Ferguson to name only a few.
As an educator, Parton is Associate Professor of Jazz
Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University.
His duties include teaching trumpet, directing the award winning CCPA
Jazz Ensembles, teaching Jazz Pedagogy, Jazz Conducting, and Music Business.
The CCPA Jazz program has released numerous compact discs featuring the
Jazz ensemble and vocal jazz groups. All of the CD’s have been well
received both nationally and internationally in the jazz education world.
When Parton is not working in Chicago you will often find him directing
an All-State jazz band or acting as a guest artist with many high school
and college jazz programs. He has presented concerts or clinics at the
Midwest Clinic in Chicago, International Association of Jazz educators
convention, MENC and many other music educators conventions.
Rob Parton is well known nationally and internationally
for the JAZZTECH Big Band and its seven critically acclaimed compact discs’
on the Sea Breeze Jazz label. Parton enjoys assembling the finest musicians
in Chicago to perform cutting edge big band jazz. The band is also very
capable of handling any style of music ranging from Count Basie to Buddy
Rich. The JAZZTECH Big Band has performed numerous times at many conventions
and festivals.
The Chicago Tribune has called the JAZZTECH Big Band "one
of the best big bands in the country". The Chicago Sun Times characterizes
the band with "hard hitting ensemble brightly crafted harmonies and
expansive solos". Cadence Magazine reviews the JAZZTECH Big Band
as "a band with no discernible weaknesses, one that fairly bristles
with vitality and enthusiasm, that reduces even the most formidable charts
and demanding unison passages to ho-hum routine".
The JAZZTECH Big Band promotes and commissions new arrangements
of music from the American Songbook as well as original compositions by
Chicago composers. The JAZZTECH Big Band is not a repertory band, however
music performed by the great road bands Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Woody
Herman etc. is often played in live concerts.
Rob Parton was artist/clinician for CG Conn for over fifteen
years and is very active as a clinician, performer, and adjudicator. Rob
has been working recently with Bob Malone and Wayne Tanabe on the development
of a new prototype trumpet by YAMAHA.
Questions or comments can be sent to rparton@rparton.com
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