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 the country to offer jazz courses for credit. Dr. Hall mentions how the term “stage band” got started.  You could not use the word “jazz” in those days in a college setting.