Lab '67, the first annual album featuring the spring semester's One O'Clock Lab Band, was part of a year of particular success for the band. Under Leon Breeden's leadership, the band achieved international recognition in a State Department-sponsored tour of Mexico, performances in Washington, D.C. at the Venezuelan Embassy and later with White House with Duke Ellington, a concert with Stan Getz as a soloist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and other achievements listed on the back of the Lab '67 album cover. It is a snapshot of a band and program enjoying unprecedented momentum after earlier years where jazz studies at UNT struggled against gatekeeping inside and outside of the university. The album also captures a moment in the early of multiple musicians who went on to distinguished careers, including Lou Marini, Tim Bell, and Tom Boras.
Click on the individual tunes below to access an embedded player and information about the tracks. Most tracks include a digitized or reconstructed score. In the absence of a score or parts, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" has a condensed score or cue sheet transcribed from the recording.
