by Bill Collins | Aug 29, 2015 | General|Rodney Booth
There’s a great trumpet player in the Dallas area named Rodney Booth. He played in the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band a year, or two after me, and had led a band around town for many years. We have worked together on many shows and recording sessions, and is a...
by Bill Collins | Aug 12, 2015 | Leon Breeden
https://youtu.be/cdmbGxSQdko Leon Breeden and The One O’Clock Lab Band presented a jazz clinic at TMEA in 1975. They made it into a record and I only heard of this album about a year ago. My friend, Roger Dismore, who was playing lead alto, remembers it well....
by Bill Collins | Aug 12, 2015 | General
Roy Eldridge had his head turned to say something to Dizzy just when the picture was taken. He felt terrible about that. Roy is over on the right side of the...
by Bill Collins | Aug 10, 2015 | Gene Hall
In 1947, Dr. Gene Hall started what is now the Division of Jazz Studies at UNT. I consider Dr. Hall to be the father of Jazz Education in this country and he was co-founder and first President of NAJE, the first association of its kind for jazz educators. When he...
by Bill Collins | Aug 5, 2015 | Dave Grusin|My favorites
I’m back sooner than I thought with “Soon”. This is one of my favorite tunes, and this is a great clarinet feature. There is nothing worse than hearing a bad clarinetist, and nothing better than hearing a really great one, like Eddie Daniels....
