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Drew Parker's Jazz Music Gold Series 2008 - Coming soon!

Canadian Drew Parker conducted award winning middle school, high school and community bands for 13 years before he entered the music industry. He quickly gained a fine reputation in the band literature area, combining his understanding of what works in the band room and his association with major publishers, writers and arrangers.

His GOLD SERIES and 5-day reading sessions brought hundreds of directors to Toronto each summer to put together their repertoire and curriculum for the new year.

Now with his own company here in North Carolina he is thrilled to start the process over again with a much wider group of customers through his internet site. He was a tough award-winning director and his standards in picking literature for your ensemble is just as hard-nosed.

"The next best thing to holding the baton myself is to help other directors produce great bands through great literature."

Drew welcomes your comments and questions at dparker@separkmusic.com and hopes these pieces bring you and your students great joy and success!

Drew's rating is is as follows:

A: Quite exceptional, very very few works achieve this level and to do so, must contain elements that challenge and excite while still being accessible. The piece needs to be musically memorable for the performers, the conductor and the audience!

B+: Strong composition with equal elements of technical challenges and musical intensity. these selections often sound far more difficult than they are.

All of the links on this website, and works rated have achieved these exacting standards. by clicking on the title, you can view Mr. Parker's actual review. There are a multitude of other quality works available from our participating publishers. Please take some time and click on the publisher links to review for yourself all of the works available.

Click on any of the links below to see Mr. Parker's actual reviews.

To request a recording of all of Drew Parker's Gold Series, please email him at
dparker@separkmusic.com.