What is the One O'Clock Lab Band?

http://www.theoneoclock.com The One O'Clock Lab Band for 64 years has been the premier ensemble of the Jazz Studies Division at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton. The band has performed and toured abroad in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, and The Netherlands. Since the 1970s, the band's albums have received six Grammy nominations, including two for Lab 2009. Since 2008, the One O'Clock has been performing under the direction of Steve Wiest (born 1957), a two-time Grammy-nominated composer-arranger and Associate Professor of Music.[1] The One O'Clock is the highest of nine peer lab bands at the college, each named for its hour of rehearsal and each a standard 19-piece big band instrumentation — five saxophones, five trombones, five trumpets, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. The One O'Clock evolved from an extracurricular stage band in 1927 into a curricular laboratory dance band in 1947 when North Texas launched the first jazz degree program in the world. Until 1967 it was the only jazz degree offered by a US university.

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[garrettmillerdrums]

Trumpet player rockin the Don Ellis Lincoln beard...

[JazzVideoGuy]

@garrettmillerdrums ha!

[DavesTrumpet]

Nice video. Someone needs to contact C.J. "Woody" Wood, who played in the late 40s band and has an old, original acetate recording of the Band. I heard it 25 years ago. Blown away because it had a harpsichord playing along in a jazz band! Anyone remember Gene Hall? I was fortunate to join him in several informal jam sessions. What a gentleman. Thanks for sharing ths!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@DavesTrumpet Gene Hall started the Jazz degree program at UNT.

[bigbocceball]

You ever heard Leali play?

[marc137]

Some of those clips have a nice terence blanchard feel

[tackyacky]

seems like jazzvideoguy is focusing a lot on the one o'clock lab band (and pushing for grammy recognition) recently... it's great! fun to see/hear and informative-- about the competition and venerable tradition at UNT, etc.-- as well! Thank you! Please keep it coming (if there's more)!!

[chrislightjazz]

I'm a junior in high school, and this school is at the top of my lists for colleges! What an incredible band. That lead tenor player is really cookin'! I think I've listened to their recording of Yesterdays one hundred times now.

[GMak79051]

I love this series of video's. Thank you!

[CadillacL]

Very nice.