Portal:Jazz/Did you know/23

September - December 2009
 * ... that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson (pictgured) of the John Jorgenson Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds?
 * ... that P53, a live album by experimental music group P53, features two classical grand pianists, a turntablist and a real-time sampler/processor?
 * ... that the American progressive rock/avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene?
 * ... that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Big Joe Duskin, had not touched a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil's music?
 * ... that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
 * ... that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?