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Serving on the UNT Jazz Voice Faculty are highly acclaimed vocal jazz educators Jennifer Barnes and Rosana Eckert, as well as four graduate teaching assistants. It is comprised of 23 students pursuing Bachelor’s, Masters, and Doctoral level degrees in jazz voice. The UNT Vocal Jazz area has been a thriving part of the Jazz Division within the College of Music for over 35 years. In his spare time, Alan enjoys playing table tennis and golfing with his UNT Jazz colleagues. His music is published by Alfred Music and .īaylock lives in Denton, Texas with his wife, cellist Maria Baylock. His eclectic talents have also led him to writing music for Roy Clark, Lee Greenwood, Wynonna, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Spyro Gyra, Ronan Tynan, and symphony orchestras throughout the United States and abroad. He is an active member of the Jazz Education Network.Īlan’s music has been performed and/or recorded by jazz greats Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Heath, Michael Brecker, Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Joe Lovano, Paquito D’Rivera, Melissa Aldana, Phil Woods, Arturo Sandoval, David Liebman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kenny Werner, Joshua Redman, Stefon Harris, Jerry Bergonzi, Nicholas Payton, Sean Jones, Tierney Sutton, Kurt Elling and many more. Thanks to the Nu Psi Chapter, Alan became an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha in 2016, and became an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi (Kappa Epsilon Chapter) in 2017. Workshop (NJW) and directed the NJW All-Star Big Band in performances on the East and West Coast. RHYTHM Will Peters-Seymour (guitar) Lexington, KY June Lee (piano) Bloomington, IN Guillermo Lopéz (bass) El Paso, TX Colman Burks (drumset) Plano, TX Rowlett, TX Burnsville, MN Duluth, MN Sherwood, OR Red Wing, MN

TRUMPETS William Ward (lead) Tacoma, WA Reneé McGee (split lead) Stafford, VA Craig Schroeder Dallas, TX David Vest Lexington, KY Pete Clagett Dallas, TX TROMBONESĭJ Rice (lead) Jack Courtright Jackson Churchill Kenny Ross (bass) Ian Calhoun (bass) SAXOPHONES Ian Weidmann (lead) San Antonio, TX Carly Stock (alto) Los Angeles, CA Daniel Henson (tenor) Fairfax, VA Andrew Larsen (tenor) Portland, OR Jack Lanhardt (baritone) Corona, CA Baylock graduated from Shenandoah University (BME 1990), where he later became Jazz Composer-in-Residence, and the University of North Texas (MM 1994).īaylock travels extensively as guest conductor and clinician, and has been featured with close to 100 professional, collegiate, high school (All-State and regional) and middle school jazz ensembles. The Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra recorded three critically-acclaimed CDs and performed throughout the United States for 15 years. One of the most respected and sought-after jazz composers and educators in the industry today, he is the director of the Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas, and previously served 20 years as Chief Arranger for the USAF Airmen of Note in Washington, D.C. The band frequently appears at major jazz venues such as Birdland in New York City, Blues Alley in Washington, DC, Catalina’s in Los Angeles, California, and as the headliner at jazz festivals, music conferences, and concerts hosted by numerous fine arts series, colleges and high schools across the United States and around the world.īorn and raised in a small town in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Alan Baylock has composed music that is performed throughout the world. The One O’Clock Lab Band® has performed by Presidential invitation at the White House, joined on stage by Duke Ellington and Stan Getz. The band has toured the major jazz festivals including Monterey, Cork/Guinness, Montreux (first college band to do so), Vienne, North Sea, Spoleto, Pori and Umbria. The One O’Clock Lab Band® has toured internationally, performing in Russia, Mexico, Switzerland, England, France, The Netherlands, Australia, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Poland, Ireland and Thailand, where the band performed for the King of Thailand and His Majesty chose to “sit in” with the band.

Concerts feature the wealth of compositions and arrangements from the UNT jazz library written by current and former North Texas students, by director Alan Baylock, by Grammynominated composers Neil Slater, Steve Wiest, and Rich DeRosa (jazz composition faculty). With seven Grammy Award® nominations (one or more per decade and under every director since the 70s: Lab ‘75, Lab ‘76, Lab ‘89, Lab ‘91, Lab 2009, Lab 2015) from the library of over eighty critically acclaimed recordings to date, the One O’Clock Lab Band is noted for exceptional individual musicianship and tight ensemble performance. Is the premier performing ensemble of the jazz studies program. Guest Artist ALAN BAYLOCK, Director THE ONE O’CLOCK LAB BAND®