Portal:Jazz/Did you know/15


 * ... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding (pictured) became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
 * ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
 * ... that the Dunbar Hotel (pictured) was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?

June 2008