Band Bios
Jazz Spectrum
BOB ZAUN, piano, arranger...At age 14 he quit piano lessons after four painful years.  At age 16 he was introduced to jazz...Ella, Oscar,
Sarah, Kenton, Basie, Ellington, The Four Freshman, and The HiLo's.  As junior in college, he met a real piano player.  Bob asked if he played in a
group.  "No, but I'd like to.  What do you play?," he asked.  Without a hitch Bob replied, "bass."  Bob figured that the notes were so low they didn't
matter, he just had to look good! That evening he called his father and said that he decided to minor in music and needed to play a second
instrument.  His dad said, "I didn't know you had a first!"  And so birth was given to his first group, The Bob Fiasco Trio.  Eventually Bob became an
accomplished bass player and began playing piano in keys other than C.  His writes all the vocal and instrumental arrangements, plus writes
vocalese lyrics in the style of Jon Hendricks.  He is married with two children and two grandchildren.  Daughter, Stacy, sings the alto part and son,
Mortgage in 2000 as a Regional Manger.  Write Bob: jazzspect@aol.com
JOHN EIFERT, drums...Formal lessons were started at age 4 and he played his first professional gig at age 11.  John played 5 summers at
Marriott's Great America and was section leader for the nationally acclaimed John Phillip Sousa Honor Band performing in Washington, DC.  At the
University of Illinois he successfully crammed four years into six, majoring in percussion and music education.  He was captain of the drum line and
President of the symphonic band his senior year.  It was there he met Stacy, Bob's daughter, as they marched together in the snare line of the
Marching Illini.   Bob became friends with John and, upon graduation, hired him as a mortgage loan officer.  Truth be known, Jazz Spectrum then
was an instrumental quartet  always in need of a drummer.  Bob figured he'd kill two birds with one stone.  Little did he know he'd also get a
son-in-law in the bargain!  Stacy & John have two children and John is an Area Manager for Chase Home Mortgage.  
LARRY BOISEN, saxes, flute, clarinet, harmonica, oboe, garden hose...We met Larry in 2001 when he was in the
audience at a Jazz Spectrum concert.  He introduced himself and he and Bob became fast friends.  They have worked together on various
projects including writing a commercial for WRLR-FM which Jazz Spectrum recorded.  Larry has backed numerous popular performers such as
Joey Lewis, Jerry Vale, The Harmonicats, and Leslie Uggums.  He has toured with Les and Larry Elgart, Ralph Marterie and Ralph Flanagan.  He
is a playwright, composer,  lyricist, author and poet....and fluent in 9 languages!   He composed the title tune for Jazz Spectrum's CD, "It's
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BILL ZIELINSKI, bass...In February 2004 Jazz Spectrum was recording their 2nd CD, "It's Christmas."  We needed an acoustic bass for
one of the numbers and Bill was recommended.  Our longstanding bass player, Tom Sievers was trying to retire.  He was happy to surrender
his spot to Bill.  While we were sad to lose Tom, Bill was a happy addition to Jazz Spectrum.   Bill is married and has one son who is a very
talented trumpet player.  Every kid has got to envy Bill's dream job...developing video games!
quartet with co-leaders, Bob Zaun and Craig Burgess
pictured here on alto sax.  The vocal quartet was added in
1994  Craig and  Bob played together for 25 years until
Craig moved out of state.  Craig passed away Dec. 2009.  
He was only 52 years old!