Portal:Jazz/Did you know/2


 * ... that the Squirrel Nut Zippers (pictured) were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz?
 * ... that Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa?
 * ... that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the "bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker?

January/February 2005