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North Texas offers the first jazz degree in the world
Denton, Texas
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In 1947 the school then called North Texas State Teachers College began granting a degree in jazz, the first anywhere, and for the next twenty years it was the only university in the United States that offered one. The dance band that came with it took its name from the hour it rehearsed and became the One O'Clock Lab Band. Its albums Lab 75 and Lab 76 were the first records by a college band to be nominated for Grammy awards.
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