Portal:Jazz/Did you know/22

August 2009
 * ... that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
 * ... that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl, a whole month before its CD release?
 * ... that the Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues" (1917) was the first released jazz recording? (historical 1917 sheet music pictured)
 * ... that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová (pictured) invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
 * ... that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin, Relaxin, Workin and Steamin?