The extensive music library and memorabilia collection of the late jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson has been purchased by an anonymous donor — and given to the University of North Texas, where it joins the collection of bandleader Stan Kenton. Image from www.petererskine.com
Read David Haynes’ short story, “The Lives of Ordinary Superheroes” from the anthology, Who Can Save Us Now? KERA radio story: DARK KNIGHT TRAILER – music crescendo. Heath Ledger as the Joker: “Where do we begin?” WEEKS: We begin, of course, with The Dark Knight. You may have heard that the latest Batman movie has [...]
Neil Slater conducted the One O’CLock Lab Band in Italy The One O’Clock Lab Band’s tour of Europe is coming to a close in Perugia, Italy — and so is director Neil Slater’s career with the band. After 27 years, he’ll be stepping down in August. So this is his last tour performance. We’ve been [...]
Late-night Perugian Jazz fans come to hear the One O’Clock The One O’Clock Lab Band has reached Rome and then headed for Perugia, the capital of Umbria, the central Italian region and home of the Umbria Jazz Festival. The Art&Seek Blog has been following the University of North Texas jazz group on its European invasion, [...]
The One O’Clock Lab Band in San Giovanni Valdarno Last we heard, the One O’Clock Lab Band were in the Netherlands, preparing to head for Italy. Now they’ve hit Rome. The Art&Seek Blog has been following the University of North Texas jazz group on its European invasion, via freelance photographer and UNT student Michael Climents’ [...]
Justin Stanton at the North Sea Jazz Festival Because of the exchange rate and the high price of internet service in Europe (10 euros for 14 minutes, almost a buck a minute), the postings from the One O’Clock Lab Band’s tour through Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy have been thin the past several days. The [...]
UNT Jazz musicians Chris Bullock and Sean Foley Ja, ja, jazz mit bier ist gut: From clues cleverly hidden in this picture, how can we tell the One O’Clock Lab Band has made it to Germany? The Art&Seek Blog has been following the University of North Texas jazz group on its current tour of Europe, [...]
Bloggin’ with the Band: Through July 22, the One O’Clock Jazz Band from the University of North Texas is playing some of the major music festivals in Europe, including the Montreaux Jazz Festival. Freelance photographer and UNT student Michael Climents is following the tour, blogging about it and posting his photos on Flickr. We’ve been [...]
The first and the last: The University of North Texas offered the first bachelor’s degree program in jazz studies in 1947, and now Neil Slater, the third director of the program, is taking his last European tour with the school’s celebrated One O’Clock Jazz Band. He’ll be retiring in August after 27 years at UNT. [...]
UNT’s Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism — which presents the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference (opening this year on July 18) — now has a glossy annual journal, called Mayborn: Where Real Stories Come Alive. The first issue, Summer 2008, has just been released and put up online. (FYI: The school is “the Mayborn,” but [...]
