General
- Al Hirt
- Bill Chase
- Boss Brass
- Bucket List Jazz Band
- Buddy Rich
- Buddy Rich
- Buddy Tate
- Chuck Findley
- Classical or symphony pops
- Dance bands
- Dave Grusin
- DFW Jingles and Show Music
- Doc Severinsen
- Don Jacoby
- Gene Hall
- General
- Harvey Anderson
- Holiday
- John Haynie
- Leon Breeden
- Lew Gillis
- Louis Armstrong
- Mario Cruz
- Maynard Ferguson
- Maynard Ferguson
- Museum
- My favorites
- My videos on Youtube
- N'Awlin Gumbo Kings
- Natalie Cole
- North Texas One O'Clock
- Old Recordings
- Old records
- Randy Lee
- Rare recording
- Rehearsal bands
- Rodney Booth
- Roy Eldridge
- Sherman Jazz Classic
- Sherman Jazz Museum
- Singers
- The artists
- Them Bones
- Tommy Loy
- Woody Herman
- WWC Jr.
- Wynton
The Bill Berry L A Band 1974
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Bill Collins III at the PHS band reunion 2013
Our high school band reunion in Fort Worth at Paschal High School in 2013.
John Thomas
John is a great lead trumpet player who teaches now at USC. He was a year ahead of me in high school, and taught me how to read and phrase jazz compositions. This was at our high school band reunion in Fort Worth at Paschal in 2013.
Dave Koz and the Summer Horns Tour 2018
We heard this group in Austin at the One World Theatre on August 3, 2018. They did two, hour and a half high energy shows that night. These are excerpts from the second show.
A Record Album Museum

When we decided to have a jazz museum, all we had was a building, a large room full of antiques, and about 400 records I had bought over the years. The antiques would have to be sold off to make room. This was the top floor of the building, and we already had another floor below that was full of antiques. A record album museum was exciting to me because I had recently learned from our daughter that album covers were going to be a thing of the past.
Our daughter was beginning to download songs and albums onto her iPod. I was horrified to think that she would have no hard copy album covers and more importantly, no liner notes. The liner notes tell you who composed the music, who did the arrangements, who played on the tracks, when it was recorded and where, not to mention the tunes and the time for each tune. In addition there might be photos and information about the band, or the recording session. Part of my love of getting a new album was reading the liner notes as I listened to the record. The history of jazz is written on the backs of record albums, not just in books. The cover art was also interesting because each album was different, and a photo of the band might be there, also. Liner notes and cover art were about to be history going forward!
We decided to have a record album museum, but no CDs because we had no room for them. That meant the museum would only contain music up to about 1989, when CDs took over for good.
The museum needed a curator to design the look for the walls, paint, albums, etc. We chose our daughter, not knowing what a talent she had for that type of thing. We couldn’t have found a better curator. It is interesting to me that my path in life was to put together a museum, and I was given just the right kids to help me do that. She has done a fantastic job, as you can see in the photos. Our son’s story will come later in the process. The early photos are from early 2008.