TRUMPETS
"Wow! What a great band! Trumpet section--OMG!" --Paul C.
DAVE FROLICHSTEIN Has recorded radio and TV jingles, albums, and performed on numerous Chicago-area Broadway shows. Toured with Diana Ross as lead trumpet. Also performed with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Doc Severinson, Perry Como, Ides of March, Julie Andrews, Aretha Franklin, Henry Mancini, Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. Received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Education from Northern Illinois University.
DAVE KATZ Has toured with Louie Bellson, Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman. Has recorded TV and radio jingles and played backup for performers including Peggy Lee, Bob Hope, Gladys Knight, The Temptations and many others, as well as for Rupert's 33 Club and currently the Orchestra 33. Received his Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Northern Illinois Unversity.
GREG TIPPS Another NIU alumnus, receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Education. Performs throughout Chicagoland as a freelance musician in a variety of styles, and is also a clinician, festival judge and choir director. Was band director for 35 years at Schaumburg High School, and currently directs the Harper College Festival Chorus. Has contributed many compositions and arrangements to the Jazz Consortium Big Band's repertoire.
ALAN FROHLICHSTEIN The Jazz Consortium Big Band's “18th man”—photographer, greeter, and all-around nice guy (and trumpeter Dave's brother). Retired Certified Retinal Angiographer, having worked in the field of Ophthalmology for over 35 years, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University and Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Photographic Communications from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Photographs for other music events including the Chicago Jazz Festival and Chicago Blues Festival. Website: www.alanfrohlichstein.com