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One O'Clock Lab Band takes finals at inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championships

The One O'Clock Lab Band, under the direction of Alan Baylock, made the finals round of competition at the inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championships organized by Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center. The band took fourth place overall amongst a prestigious lineup of university jazz programs from across the country on Sunday, January 19, 2020. 

Additionally, UNT Jazz Studies students took home a number of individual and section honors including:

  • Outstanding Saxophone Section
  • Outstanding Trombone Section
  • Outstanding Trumpet Section
  • Outstanding Alto Saxophone, Will Nathman
  • Outstanding Trumpet, Austin Ford
  • Outstanding Trumpet, Chris Van Leeuwen

Congratulations to all of our students and colleague institutions for an amazing weekend in New York City!

One O'Clock Lab Band in Lobby

One O'Clock in Rose Theater

 

Jazz Studies faculty receive DJAM Jazz Legend Awards

Each year since 2013, the organizers of Dallas Jazz Appreciation Month, who represent organizations and institutions that support and present jazz year-round in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, recognize important figures in the jazz community with the Jazz Legend Awards.
Among this years winners are UNT Jazz Studies Faculty members Jennifer Barnes (Jazz Educator) and Rodney Booth (Jazz Artist), and Instrumental Studies adjunct instructor and Jazz Studies alumnus Stockton Helbing (Jazz Innovator). They were recognized on April 13, 2019 at the DJAM Open House at the Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. Jennifer Barnes was on tour with the Jazz Singers that day. Photos by Bart Marantz.


Arlington Jones, Rodney Booth, Joanna St. Angelo


Arlington Jones, Stockton Helbing, Joanna St. Angelo

DownBeat Student Music Award Recipients for 2019

Congratulations to this year's DownBeat Student Music Award recipients from the Division of Jazz Studies:

Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance

Avenue C - Marion Powers, director

Faculty mentor: Rosana Eckert

Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Graduate College Winner

UNT Jazz Singers

Faculty mentor: Jennifer Barnes

*Outstanding Soloist: Stephanie Hanson on “Spring Is Here”

*Outstanding Scat Soloist Kara Walton on “Spring Is Here”

Original Composition – Large Ensemble

Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance

Kyle Myers, “Red Herring”

Faculty mentor: Richard DeRosa

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