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...

Dr. Gene Hall Recommends Leon Breeden

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...

Back so Soon

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....