The
Jazz Consortium Big Band is a swinging, rocking, roaring 17-piece Chicago big band that celebrates the best swing and jazz-rock big band music. Since its inception in 1975, the Jazz Consortium Big Band has featured well-known music from such iconic big bands as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman,
and Glenn Miller, and contemporary big bands like Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson,
and Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, plus original compositions by band members.
Led
by saxophonist Roy Vombrack, this Chicago area big band plays a variety of
jazz, swing and jazz-rock music that appeals to all ages.
