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Name: Rob Parton
rparton@rparton.com
Agent Name: Rob Parton
Daytime Phone: 708 763-8822
Evening Phone: 708 763-8822
Specialty: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Upcoming Gigs
Recurring Gigs
Catch 35
35 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Ill 60601
Cost: $free
Rob Parton Trio
Monday's through Friday's 6:00-9:00pm
Saturday's 6:30-9:30pm
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FitzGerald's
6615 West Roosevelt Road
Berwyn, Ill 60601
Cost: $$10.00
Rob Parton's JAZZTECH Big Band EVERY third Wednesday with guest HS bands starting at 7:30pm
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Rob Parton
Check out Rob's newest JAZZTECH CD!Rob Parton, one of Chicago's most active and versatile trumpet players, is well known and highly regarded as a studio/theatre musician, performer-educator and band-leader.
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.
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 educator's convention, MENC and many other music educators conventions.
Rob Parton is well known nationally and internationally for the JAZZTECH Big Band and its four 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".
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.
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