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All-State Jazz Band


For the past 39 years, Jim Culbertson has been a high school band director in Decatur, IL. and the driving force in the Decatur West End music program, preparing hundreds of students for careers in music as teachers and performers. His philosophy as always been to strive to maintain a balanced program of band activities that includes: marching, pep, concert and jazz bands. The jazz program at Mac has gained a reputation as one of the premier programs in Illinois as well as in the U.S., producing 24 studio quality tapes, records and CDs. From these recordings, Mac Jazz has earned 37 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards, garnering the top spot as the best high school jazz band in the U.S. four times: 1989, 1991, 1992 and 2002. Jazz combo has taken top honors as the number one DB winner, 2002 & 2009.


Honors Combo


Bob Lark is a trumpet and flugelhorn player whose performances are especially notable for his lyrical style and warm tone. Lark serves as the Director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Il- linois, where he directs the university Jazz Ensemble and The Phil Woods Ensemble, teaches jazz trumpet and courses in jazz peda- gogy and jazz style. Under his direction the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble has produced several Outstanding Performance Awards from the Jazz Educators Journal, Down Beat and Jazz Times mag- azines. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance from the University of North Texas, having earlier earned a Master’s degree from that school and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from The Ohio State University.


Honors Vocal Jazz Ensemble


Larry Lapin is Professor of Studio Music and Jazz and Program Director of Jazz Vocal Performance at the University of Miami- Frost School of Music. His students and ensembles have gar- nered 27 awards from Downbeat Magazine in DB’s annual stu- dent music award competition. As a pianist, composer, arranger, Larry’s experience as a player includes performances with jazz greats such as Cab Calloway, Gerry Mulligan, Bobby Shew, Johnny Smith, George Duvivier and Sarah Vaughn His compositions, ar- rangements and orchestrations are published by Sound Music Publications Jazz Press and are being performed by professional and student groups all over the country. Recent credits include an appearance at the JEN National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.


Honors Jazz Band


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. Recently Parton accepted a position as Associate Professor of Trumpet at Capital University in Columbus Ohio. Rob will divide his time both in Columbus and Chicago for a while. As a jazz musician, Parton has been performing five nights a week for the past four years as 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. 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.


54 Music is a 21st Century Skill | Jazz Ensemble Conductors


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