About the band

The Rockwell Band has performed since 1982 at venues within the Rockwell facility and around the community. The membership is made up of employees, spouses, and retirees of Rockwell. The Band is a concert band, and plays a wide variety of music: marches, show tunes, big band swing, polkas, and popular favorites.

The Rockwell Band is sponsored through Employee Services, and receives financial support from the company to purchase new music and supplies.

Would you like to play?

The Band provides an opportunity for employees, retirees and spouses to enjoy their musical talents. The Band is always open to anyone who would like to join. We rehearse each Monday night from 6:30 to 7:30 at the Main Plant cafeteria (building 140). Bring your instrument and a music stand and have fun!

For more information about the Rockwell Band or playing in the band, e-mail Jim Jezek.

About the director, James K. Jezek

• Retired US Air Force in 2002, with 21.5 years of active service. • He worked for a IT security consulting firm for two years after the Air Force in Omaha. Jim was employed by Rockwell Collins in 2004 as a Senior Systems Engineer and currently works as the Security Integrated Product Team Lead for the GEMS Program in Cedar Rapids. • Jim began playing the piano at age 8 and studied for five years then again for another three during high school. He played 1st chair trombone in his high school band, receiving numerous outstanding and superior musicianship awards for solo and group ensemble performances. He was also a member of the school choir and served as the choir student director his junior and senior years, and as the sergeant at arms. In college he played in the marching and the concert bands, a jazz band as Bass Trombone, and the University Orchestra as 3d Trombone. He changed his degree from music education to information technology after he joined the Air Force in 1981. • Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University and a Master Degree in Information Technology with an emphasis on Information Security. • Jim is married to Jenine and they have six children, 3 girls and 3 boys. One son, Kevin, is following his father's footsteps by serving in the US Air Force and is currently deployed over seas to the United Arab Emirates.