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Grand Prairie Auditorium, 1958 May 1; Merriman, Gustafeste, Gwin, Breeden [Dallas], 1958 February 21

Description: Recording of Leon Breeden playing with two different jazz chamber groups. The first recording is from a Grand Prairie High School fundraiser and recorded by the Grand Prairie Radio Station in the Grand Prairie High School auditorium. The performers on the first recording are Jim Ecker, piano; John Hawkins, bass; Sumter Brutin, drum set; and Leon Breeden, clarinet. The first recording is a re-recording from the original vinyl. The second recording is from a performance in Dallas by Leon Breeden,… more
Date: {1958-02-21,1958-05-01}
Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Location: 32.776664 -96.796988
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #1422, Irving Berlin Tribute, Part I

Description: The first hour of a two-hour tribute to Irving Berlin, in the year that Berlin turned 70, broadcast November 20, 1958. The program includes numerous interviews with popular artists and selected Berlin compositions which they recorded, including Guy Lombardo (interview dated September 17, 1958), Ginger Rogers (interview dated August 28, 1958), Rudy Vallee, and Fred Astaire.
Date: November 6, 1958
Duration: 53 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #1422, Tribute to Irving Berlin, Part II

Description: The second hour of a two-hour tribute to Irving Berlin, in the year that Berlin turned 70, broadcast November 20, 1958. The program includes numerous interviews with popular artists and selected Berlin compositions which they recorded, including Bing Crosby (interview dated August 28, 1958), Benny Goodman, Ethel Merman, Fred Waring (interview dated October 1, 1958), and Eddie Cantor, with brief statements by Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Weston, Jo Stafford, Paul Whiteman, an interview with Berlin hims… more
Date: November 6, 1958
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Leon Breeden, clarinet, Tom Merriman, piano, Joe Gustafeste, bass, Tommy Gwin, drums, 1958 February 21. U.S. State Department, part 2- mono original tape, North Texas Lab Band - Leon Breeden, conductor, 1966 February 25

Description: Recording of a small jazz chamber ensemble led by Leon Breeden and consisting of Breeden, Tom Merriman, Joe Gustafeste, and Tommy Gwin on February 21, 1958. This cassette also contains a recording of the North Texas Lab Band performing for the U.S. State Department on February 25, 1966. Breeden can be heard speaking between tunes during the North Texas Lab Band performance.
Date: {1958-02-21,1966-02-25}
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Don Jacoby: Have Conns, Will Travel, 1958. Don Jacoby: Can't Get Started, 1958-59

Description: Recording of Leon Breeden's copy of the Don Jacoby album "Have Conns Will Travel!" and of a performance of Don Jacoby's "Can't Get Started." "Have Conns, Will Travel" is played in full. The Chicago Symphonic Band and a 17-piece dance band perform with Jacoby on "Have Conns Will Travel!" The commercial recording that "Can't Get Started" is from has not been identified. Breeden recorded these vinyl records to cassette, which is what is heard here.
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Date: 1958/1959
Duration: 37 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Penguin Club, 1958. Bayou, 1960

Description: Recording of two jazz combos playing at the Penguin Club in 1958 and the Bayou in 1960. The club's locations are unknown and the combos are unknown. Between some of the performances crowd noise
Date: {1958,1960}
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Partner: UNT Music Library
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