Rob Parton's JAZZTECH Big Band
Directed by Rob Parton
Rob Parton is well known nationally and internationally for the JAZZTECH
Big Band and its five 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 features in its
regular performances the many styles of music ranging from Count Basie
to Buddy Rich. The JAZZTECH Big Band has performed at the Mid-West Band
clinic in Chicago, Jazz Unites Tribute to Duke Ellington, numerous College
Jazz festivals, a coast to broadcast honoring Garrison Keiler & Hugh
Downs.
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".
You can hear Rob Parton's JAZZTECH Big Band regularly at their monthly
home FitzGerald's located in Berwyn.
Rob Parton plays CG Conn Vintage One trumpets and flugelhorns exclusively
and is Associate Professor and Chairman of Jazz Studies for the Chicago
College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University.
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