J. Frank Lively Collection, 1950-1979
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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 ...
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...
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...
