No doubt the students that join the jazz program at The University of North Texas are incredibly advanced players eager to start making music with their classmates. But their development is also dramatically facilitated through their association with the program’s music director Rob Parton and the enthusiastic support and encouragement he and his colleagues give to them. Anyone hearing the school’s Two O’Clock Lab Band will be awed by the professional calibre of the performances and the preternatural maturity demonstrated by the band personnel. And it’s not only players we’re talking about, as its new Return Two Paradise release also features material composed and arranged by UNT students. That the album’s twelve tracks were culled from two…

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