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.

Performance Schedule

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Additional CD's available

Fascinatin Rhythm

What Are We Here For?

The Count Is In!

Rob Parton's JAZZTECH Big Band with Conte Candoli

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