[Leon Breeden Scrapbook: 1964] Page: 81
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JAZZ DIRECTOR-Leon Breeden, director of North
Texas State University's lab bands, talks with his 1
p. m. band piano -player, Dan Haerle. Haerle was
named best rhythm player at the recent University of
Kansas jazz festival, which was won by the' NTSU
band.
NTSU Lab Band
Learns About Jazz
swered with whirring runs. The.
"" j"bass player flailed away at his -
instrument's strings.
gives them the feeling of being And, that's the Music of
on te other side." North Texas- brassy, fresh,
Y t r s * original, a new sound.. The
sound of tomorrow.
SDURING THAT steamy ses- And all that jazz.
sion recently, one student led And all that jazz.
the band in his version of
"Moon River," but he called it
"Moon Bag River." :.Breeden
explaied that -"Moon Bag" is a
local term meaning "far out."
Toward the end of the prac-
tice hour, Breeden was covered
with perspiration but still
teaching. The graying director,
who can scream E above high
high C when anyone associates
rock n' roll with jazz, urged the
musicians to "make that sec-
ond lead-in a little sharper. Not
) so riding, so legit.
"And, where are the vibes?
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