Interviewee | HALL, Morris E. “Gene” (b. 1913) |
Professions | Musician, College Professor |
Interview ID # | OH 0840 |
Date(s) of interview | - , - |
Description | Musician, college professor. His reflections and personal role in establishing the jazz studies program in the College of Music at North Texas State College. Early music career; student days at North Texas; graduate studies at New York University; establishing the jazz studies program; organizing the Lab Bands; Kenton Clinics; his experiences at Michigan State University, College of The Desert, and Stephen F. Austin State University; his role in the founding of the National Association of Jazz Studies; his teaching methods; personal theories and concepts of jazz; comments about deans of the North Texas College of Music; relations with University administrators. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello, Mike Cogswell |
Physical Description | 255 pp. plus documents (11 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |