Gene Hall
Morris Eugene Hall (aka M.E. "Gene" Hall) (June 12, 1913 – March 4, 1993) was a music educator, saxophonist, and arranger, most known for creating and presiding over the first academic curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in jazz (then called "Dance Band") at an institution of higher learning, being at the University of North Texas College of Music (then, "North Texas State Teachers College") in 1947.
Read more about Gene Hall: Early Years, College Days, Music Academician, Collaboration With Stan Kenton, Award in Hall's Name, National Affiliations, Honors, See Also, External Links
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“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)