Byron Parks - Trumpet, has played with or been a member of several groups and big bands including, NTSU 1”O’clock Lab Band, Dallas County, Claude Gordon, Tommy Amador, Joe Reiman, Jack Melick, Ted Graham, Jimmy Dorsey, Les Elgart and Frank Sinatra impersonator, Paul Salos .

He is an original member of the Dallas Jazz Orchestra and served as co-leader and conductor for over a decade.

Byron has backed entertainers such as, Chuck Berry, Sammy Davis Jr., ,Rosemary Clooney, Billy Eckstine,  Bob Hope, Nancy Wilson, Van Morrison, Doc Severinsen, The Four Tops, The Four Freshmen, The Temptations, Barry White, Brian Wilson, Mel Torme’, Yanni, Barry Mantilow and the Moody Blues.

Byron, the recording engineer has recorded groups of all sorts over the past three decades and has engineered the last 8 Dallas Jazz Orchestra CD’s. He is the winner of over 30 awards in the engineering field.