Portal:Jazz/Did you know/16

June 2008
 * ... that Dizzy Gillespie (pictured) may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin' High" by a film serial he saw as a child?
 * ... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland?
 * ... that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
 * ... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?