North Texas One O’Clock – Sherman Jazz Museum

January 25, 2020

Doodle Oodle by The One O’Clock Lab band live in New York

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On 1/16/2020 the One O’Clock Lab band travelled to New York to play at the jazz club, Birdland.

January 25, 2020

The One O’Clock Lab band at Birdland in New York 1/16/2020

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November 12, 2019

The 1966 North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band on TV with Stan Kenton

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October 15, 2019

A New Day, by the North Texas One O’Clock Lab band in 1968 at the MENC Convention.

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October 15, 2019

Three Thoughts, recorded at the MENC Convention in 1968 by the North Texas One O’Clock Lab band.

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October 15, 2019

Childhood, from the 1968 MENC Convention by the North Texas One O’Clock Lab band

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This composition was dedicated to Leon Breeden’s son, who was killed in a hit and run car wreck just two months earlier.

September 19, 2019

S-1 by the 1968 North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band at the MENC convention in Seattle

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With an into by Dr. Gene Hall (the founder of the North Texas jazz program, and 1st President and co-founder of NAJE), this was the first time jazz had been included as a part of this music education organization (Music Educators National Conference), and the start of NAJE (National Association of Jazz Educators, which became IAJE).

September 16, 2019

Codify, by the North Texas One O’Clock Lab band in 1970

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They were the guest band at a jazz festival in Illinois in May of 1970. I transferred this from an open reel tape recording this week. The tape had been stored for 49 years, and I wasn’t sure if it would still be playable. Fortunately it was, and also that my 43 year old TEAC tape deck stills plays!

September 16, 2019

Blues & The Abstract Truth and Doodle Oodle by the North Texas One O’Clock Lab band in 1970–live.

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This was at a jazz festival, and North Texas was the guest band, not a contestant. Leon Breeden was ill, so Ashley Alexander filled in to lead the band that day.

September 16, 2019

The North Texas One O’Clock Lab band at a jazz festival in Illinois in 1970 playing Moon River, arranged by Marious Nordal.

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They were the guest band at this festival.