Portal:Jazz/Did you know/11

July 2007
 * ... that Bill Barber (pictured) played tuba on a number of Miles Davis albums including Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain?
 * ... that Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars jazz band?
 * ... that Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill?