Saturday, August 14, 2010

Leon Breeden, director of jazz studies...

...at the University of North Texas, died on Wednesday at age 88.

Harold Leon Breeden was born on Oct. 3, 1921, in Guthrie, Okla., and reared in Wichita Falls, Tex., where his parents owned a service station. (As a youth, he enjoyed recounting afterward, he once served a Coke to a handsome young couple who had pulled into the station. Their names, he later learned, were Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.)

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