Leon Breeden, ex-director of University of North Texas jazz program, dies
Leon Breeden, legendary director of the University of North Texas Jazz Studies program who made the school's One O'Clock Lab Band internationally famous, has died.
Gene Lees, a jazz historian and critic known for his pugnacious, highly personal essays and biographies of such jazz greats as Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman and Johnny Mercer, died Thursday at his home in Ojai, Calif. He was 82.