Category Archives: North Texas One O’Clock

Concert on February 9, 2018 with the One O’Clock Lab Band and Marshall Gilkes

Our museum is sponsoring this concert next month at Austin College.  It should be a great concert, and part of the Community Series 50th Anniversary year celebration. To buy tickets: http://communityseries.org/home  

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Collecting North Texas Lab Band Albums Since 1967

    I have been collecting the annual recordings of the North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band since 1967, when the tradition began.  In our museum, we have a display of all of them and is the only place I … Continue reading

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“Clams Anyone?” from Lab’67 at NTSU

https://youtu.be/JWz088slXd0 This is a song from the very first annual lab band record at North Texas, Lab’67.  The band sight read an an original composition in the studio.  Leon Breeden felt that music students were harmed by playing only a … 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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“Threshold” One O’Clock in Ft. Worth Dec. 1975

http://youtu.be/S_j4bEspZ2I This is probably my favorite piece we did while I was in the One O’Clock Lab Band.  Pat Williams did the composition and is one of my favorite writers.  Mike Davis is on the trumpet solo, and Pete Brewer … Continue reading

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“A Good Time Was Had By All” 1976 One O’Clock

  This was our final number of the night.  We had a two hour rehearsal in the afternoon, then a two hour concert ending with this tune with three encores.  It was outside, hot, and it had been a long … Continue reading

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