Classical meets jazz as Houston Symphony to gig with One O'Clock Lab Band
“I’m thrilled that we get to share the stage with them,” he adds. “[It’s two institutions that are really renowned for what they do in their own spheres coming together to put together one show, so I think it's going to be really spectacular.”
Only the program’s very top players make it into the One O’Clock band. Each year the school releases a recording featuring that year’s One O’Clock lineup; to date seven have been nominated for Grammys. Welcoming top jazz artists to campus is also a longstanding UNT tradition, and YouTube is full of A-listers — Sean Jones, Christian McBride, Chuck Findley — sitting in.
“My roommate as a freshman had been doing pickups [gigs] on the weekends with Tommy Dorsey and with the Stan Kenton Band and some other touring bands through the Midwest, and yet he made the bottom band at North Texas the first year he got there,” Rydman says. “He ended up being in the One O’Clock as a senior and as a graduate student. The quality of student at North Texas, in the jazz program, blew me away.
“I think we’re extremely lucky in Houston to have musicians who are willing to be experimental, willing to do all genres,” he says. “They’re not so ingrained in their singular culture that they're not willing to do work across the board.”
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