by Bill Collins | Oct 15, 2019 | North Texas One O'Clock|Rare recording
This composition was dedicated to Leon Breeden’s son, who was killed in a hit and run car wreck just two months...
by Bill Collins | Sep 16, 2019 | North Texas One O'Clock|Rare recording
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...
by Bill Collins | Sep 16, 2019 | North Texas One O'Clock|Rare recording
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...