Oral history interview with Gene Hall, 1991 February 9, 14, 18, and 19.

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Oral history interview with Gene Hall, 1991 February 9, 14, 18, and 19.

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Interview with Morris E. ("Gene") Hall, a musician and college professor, concerning his reflections and personal role in establishing the jazz studies program in the College of Music at North Texas State College. Hall discusses his early music career, his student days at North Texas, his graduate studies at New York University, establishing the jazz studies program, organizing the Lab Bands, Kenton Clinics, and his experiences at Michigan State University, College of the Desert, and Stephen F. Austin State University. He also talks about his role in the founding of the National Association of Jazz Studies, his teaching methods, his personal theories and concepts of jazz, the deans of the North Texas College of Music, and his relationship with university administrators.

255, [1], 10, [1] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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