Category Archives: Museum

Two Major Donations of Record Albums

When I started working on the museum in October of 2005, I only had a few records of my own to put in the museum.  Soon, however, we acquired 3,400 records in two donations from two of my friends. Leonard … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Where Do You Start?

The idea of having a jazz museum was born on October 22, 2005 at about 3 P.M.  I was in the pit playing the matinee of the Broadway show Wicked. It was the day before my last day of a … Continue reading

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Doc Plays Malagueña 1981 Plano High School

At the same concert Doc played Concerto Barrocco, he played Malagueña, also.  I edited the 15 minute piece down a bit, so we could hear just Doc.  Doc hired a local rhythm section of professional players from the Dallas area, … Continue reading

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Doc Severinsen’s 1966 Getzen Trumpet

  In 1966 the Paschal High School stage band went to the National Championship contest in Pampa, Tx. where Doc Severinsen was one of the judges.  Doc was so impressed with the playing of lead trumpet, 15 year old John … Continue reading

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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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