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Alan Baylock

Allison Miller with the One O'Clock Lab Band: Big & Lovely

by Angelo Leonardi
May 27, 2026

Nota per la sua presenza nel supergruppo Artemis, la batterista Allison Miller è anche una fantasiosa compositrice e scrive prevalentemente per il sestetto Boom Tic Boom, che guida da oltre un decennio. Le sue dinamiche e variopinte partiture--arrangiate da vari autori--costituiscono il repertorio di quest'album in cui è ospite dell'orchestra One O'Clock Lab Band della North ...

Lab 2021

By Alan Baylock

Label: Unt Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: It’s Only a Paper Moon; Evading Karmacities; Phases; Runaround; A Remark You Made; Jolly Wallop; Wisdom; One of These Things (Doesn’t Belong); Above the Clouds; Cool Kids.

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2022

by Jack Bowers
December 14, 2022

As the Covid pandemic slowly recedes into America's rear-view mirror, jazz groups of all sizes and shapes have begun performing and recording again, making 2022 a rather good year over-all for fans and reviewers alike. New artists, new sounds and new approaches have combined to lend assurance that jazz remains in good hands and will continue ...

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2021

by Jack Bowers
June 23, 2022

The University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, has been producing annual recordings for almost half a century. It has also given rise to a veritable assembly line of world-class jazz musicians, more of whom are no doubt coming of age while honing their chops on the One O'Clock's latest album, Lab ...

The Rodger Fox Big Band: Reimagined! The Roger Fox big Band Plays Sir Dave Dobbyn

by Jack Bowers
June 15, 2022

On Reimagined!, New Zealander Rodger Fox's superlative big band takes a fresh look at the music of Sir Dave Dobbyn, one of that country's most honored and beloved musicians. Although Dobbyn has spent his celebrated career in the fields of pop and rock, his evocative compositions lend themselves well to light and swinging interpretations by Fox's ...

Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Mazel Tov Kocktail!

by Jack Bowers
February 27, 2021

Any big band that has been alive and kicking for forty-two years surely deserves a Mazel Tov or two. Ira B. Liss formed his San Diego-based Big Band Jazz Machine in 1979, and it has been standing tall on the local scene ever since. Although the band puts its best foot forward at the outset on ...

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 ...

Lab 2018, The Rhythm of the Road

By Alan Baylock

Label: Unt Jazz
Released: 2018
Track listing: Hey, It’s Me You’re Talkin’ To; The Rhythm of the Road; Train; Blues for Kazu; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; “Birds of a Feather . . .”; Without a Doubt; Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5; After the Rain.

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2018, The Rhythm of the Road

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2018

Another year, another excellent recording from the University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, which has been producing similarly impressive albums for more than four decades. Unlike many of its predecessors, Lab 2018 has a subtitle, “The Rhythm of the Road," a nod to the band's twenty-eight concerts in a dozen cities ...