Leon Breeden

Classical music, Musical Artist

1921 – 2010

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Who was Leon Breeden?

Harold Leon Breeden, known as Leon Breeden, was a jazz studies educator at the collegiate level, a classical and jazz clarinetist, a saxophonist, a prolific composer and arranger, a music clinician, and jazz festival judge. The Associated Press release of Breeden's death referred to him as, "legendary director of the University of North Texas' jazz program who made its 'One O'Clock Lab Band' internationally famous."

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Born
Oct 3, 1921
Guthrie
Education
  • Texas Christian University
Died
Aug 11, 2010
Dallas

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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