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Jay Saunders

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2019

by Jack Bowers
November 30, 2019

UNT is the University of North Texas, home to the country's flagship Jazz Studies program since its inception in the mid-1940s, and home as well to no less than a dozen undergraduate big bands, each one named for its daily rehearsal time. Pride of place goes to the One O'Clock ensemble whose special artistry has been ...

University of North Texas: Anniversary Package; Lab 2017

by Jack Bowers
December 24, 2017

To mark the seventieth anniversary of its establishment, the Division of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas in Denton has issued superb CD compilations honoring four of its distinguished educators / bandleaders in addition to Lab 2017 by the university's flagship One O'Clock Lab Band, the fiftieth annual recording by that widely celebrated ensemble. ...

Lab 2016

By Jay Saunders

Label: Unt Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: Southern Comfort; Lonely Woman; Alegrias de Solea; Quicksilver; Not Enough Sky; This Is for Albert; Theme for Malcolm; Trinkle, Tinkle; Take Your Time; Lemon Juice.

The UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2016

by Jack Bowers
November 3, 2016

The year ending in May 2016 was quite an eventful time for the University of North Texas' flagship One O'Clock Lab Band. Besides hosting regular concerts and clinics in Denton and the surrounding area and holding its three yearly performances in Fort Worth, the band welcomed acclaimed drummer Dennis Mackrel as guest artist for its fall ...

Two Music: It Don't Mean a Thing, If It...

By Jay Saunders

Label: Unt Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Disc 1 -- Bitter Jug; The Madland; Terell’s Song; I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; Vaguely Reminiscent; Detour Ahead; Five’ll Getcha Ten; Lament. Disc 2 -- Nardis; You Must Believe in Spring; J&B; Inner Urge; The Rat Race; Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles; Love Matters the Most; Del Sasser; E-Ticket.

Lab 2015

By Jay Saunders

Label: Unt Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: All the Things You Are; Out in the Storm; Pistachio; Neil; Anthropoidea; The Song Is You; The Other Side; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Uncertainty.

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2015

by Jack Bowers
December 18, 2015

Jay Saunders, director of the University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, sums up the group's latest recording, Lab 2015, in one concise and canny sentence: “Sometimes it's best just to let the band play what they want to play." With that in mind, Saunders writes in the album's liner notes, he ...

UNT Two O'Clock Lab Band: Two Music: It Don't Mean a Thing, If It...

by Jack Bowers
January 19, 2015

As has been pointed out a number of times before, there's no audible difference between the University of North Texas' One O'Clock and Two O'Clock Lab Bands, which are customarily named for rehearsal times but based on performance alone could well be designated One O'Clock and One-Fifteen. This is not meant to devalue the One O'Clock ...