Leon Breeden Collection, 1919-2010
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Gillis, Lew, 1927-1989
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Lewis Dean Gillis was born on November 26, 1927 in Cameron, Missouri, and was the younger brother of composer Don Gillis. According to his obituary in the Dallas Morning News, Lew Gillis graduated from Paschal High School and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, and performed as a trombonist with the Stock Show Rodeo Band there beginning in the mid-1940s, before becoming its director in 1957. Gillis was the director of bands at TCU from 1950 until 1955, following in the footsteps of his bro...
University of North Texas. College of Music. One O'Clock Lab Band
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Flagship jazz ensemble of the University of North Texas College of Music....
Lively, J. Frank, 1920-2002
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J. Frank Lively was born on July 30, 1920 in Fort Worth, Texas. He began playing the drums professionally while studying commercial art at Oklahoma State University. He followed the Lab Bands at what is now the University of North Texas since their inception in the 1940s, and also played in bands in the 1940s with the future director of the One O'Clock Lab Band, Leon Breeden. Lively worked for and owned advertising agencies in Fort Worth and Dallas, and designed album covers for the One O'Clock ...
Graham, Floyd, 1902-1974
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Floyd Freeman Graham was born in Roanoke, Texas on October 15, 1902. His family moved to nearby Denton when he was two years old so that he and his elder brother, Wynne, could attend school. Both brothers later attended North Texas State Normal College, and Wynne was among the first five students awarded bachelor's degrees in 1919. Floyd Graham graduated from Denton High School in 1919. During the 1920s, he appeared in ensembles on Fort Worth and Dallas radio, taught violin, and briefly served a...
Kenton, Stan, 1911-1979
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Stanley Newcomb Kenton was born on December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas. His family lived in California and Colorado before permanently settling in Bell, California, in the Los Angeles area. Kenton's musical career began in his teens, and made his first recordings with Gus Arnheim in 1937, joining Vido Musso's band in 1938, and organizing a rehearsal band which evolved into his own orchestra. From the 1940s onward, the Kenton band was the site of intersection between jazz, popular music, and ex...
Jacoby, Don, 1920-1992
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Donald Bernard "Jake" Jacoby was born on May 28, 1920 in York, Pennsylvania. He began playing trumpet at age 6, and became a soloist with the Spring Garden Band at age 9; he appeared on radio stations WCAU in Philadelphia and WJZ in New York. At age 16, he studied with Ernest S. Williams at his School of Music in Brooklyn, New York. By the time he graduated at age 19, he had been a soloist at Carnegie Hall. After graduating, he joined the Milt Britton band, and then the Les Brown band. Jacoby jo...
Breeden, Leon, 1921-2010
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Harold Leon Breeden was born on October 3, 1921, in Guthrie, Oklahoma. When he was three years old, his family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, where he spent the remainder of his childhood and graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939. Breeden initially attended Texas Wesleyan College, and transferred to Texas Christian University. During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army's 69th Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Bliss. He earned both a Bachelor of Arts in music (1945) and...
