One O'Clock Lab Band at Denton High School on Feb. 3, 2011

The One O’Clock Lab Band, UNT’s premier jazz ensemble....

Official UNT Press Release:

The Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas will tour Europe this October, including performances at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival — one of Ireland’s biggest jazz events. Festival organizers have billed the band as “widely reckoned to be the best college jazz big band in the world today” and “one of the best ensembles to perform in Cork in recent years.”

Under the direction of Grammy-nominated composer and arranger Steve Wiest, the band will offer a master class at the University College Cork School of Music, as well as a concert at the noted jazz club The Bull’s Head in London, broadcast live on the UK Jazz Radio at http://www.ukjazzradio.com/ . Tune in online to hear the band perform two one-hour sets at 2:30 p.m. CST (8:30 p.m. London time) and 4 p.m. CST (10 p.m. London time) Oct. 28 (Thursday).

The One O’Clock Lab Band, UNT’s premier jazz ensemble, has performed and toured throughout the world — including Australia, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand and The Netherlands. The band’s albums have received six Grammy nominations over the years, including Lab 2009’s two nominations — one for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album and one for Best Instrumental Composition for “Ice-Nine” by Wiest. The UNT jazz program — the first of its kind in the nation — is housed within the College of Music, one of the largest and most comprehensive music schools in the nation.

One O'Clock Lab Band

To hear the tracks and view studio footage: http://www.jazz.unt.edu/oneoclock/grammypage.html

The UNT One O'Clock Lab Band is submitted in the following categories:

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Sylvester Onyejiaka "Another Other" composed by Neil Slater
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Phil Bulla
Best Instrumental Composition: "Ice-Nine" Steve Wiest
Best Instrumental Arrangement: "Li'l' Darlin'" by Neal Hefti, Arranged by Kevin Swaim
Program notes by Bob Belden