Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Antique Museum 1992-2008

      http://youtu.be/EgkJjyNVG7w The museum of American Victorian walnut furniture opened around 1992.  There was no grand opening, it just evolved.  It contained what was possibly the largest collection of American Victorian walnut furniture in America.  It was a … Continue reading

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Antique Collectors

http://youtu.be/_3rs0FQQ24c My parents actively collected antiques from 1973-1978.  This video shows the section of their warehouse in Sherman where they were stored and refinished before their antique museum opened in 1992.  My dad loved to restore and repair the antiques … Continue reading

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Almost a Car Museum?

http://youtu.be/INySm4lcDss There was a time thirty years ago that my father found himself storing collectible cars in his warehouse in Sherman for a car collector.  If he had decided to buy the cars from the collector, we would have had … Continue reading

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Before The Jazz Museum

http://youtu.be/fz_3uzUPu7w Before we started the jazz museum in 2010 my parents owned an American Victorian antique museum in the same building.  It operated from about 1992-2008.  When my father died in 2008, we were in the process of adding a … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Dr. Gene Hall & Leon Breeden Interview at Intermission KERA TV 1976

A rare interview with the founder of the Jazz Studies program at UNT in 1947, Dr. Gene Hall, and Leon Breeden who followed him in 1959.  These were the first two directors of the program, which was the first in … Continue reading

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Big Band Medley KERA TV 1976 One O’Clock Lab Band

Leon Breeden always knew how to play tunes for the crowd, and since they were going to Russia the next month he chose this big band medley.  This is the type of composition that Mr. Breeden would have us sight … Continue reading

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Rachael Lebon sings “The Way We Were” with the North Texas Lab One O’Clock Lab Band

One things that always impressed me about this band as how well the woodwind players doubled on flute, clarinet, and sax.  I know that the lead alto player, Roger Dismore, started out as a clarinet player in  junior high school … Continue reading

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Rachel Lebon sings with the One O’Clock Lab Band–1976

Rachel sings “A Day In The Life of A Fool”.  We rehearsed a couple of hours that afternoon, and probably read through her charts once.  She is now Dr. Lebon and teaches vocal jazz at the University of Miami.

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One O’Clock Lab Band 1976 KERA TV Opening Number

This was our opening tune on May 15, 1975 at KERA TV in Dallas, TX.  It is a Thad Jones composition called “61st & Rich It”. Flugelhorn solo is by Clay Jenkins who is now the jazz instructor at the … Continue reading

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