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A Jazz Icon's Swan Song

After 27 years, Neil Slater is retiring as director of jazz studies at the University of North Texas. He almost turned down the job -- but then he heard students practicing as he toured the campus.

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Neil Slater, the longtime leader of the jazz program at the University of North Texas who will retire this month, encouraged both musical perfection and artistic freedom among his star pupils.