Portal:Jazz/Did you know/24

January - April 2010
 * ... that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose (pictured) only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
 * ... that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck  string quartet  recording?
 * ... that Lena Horne (pictured) won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music?
 * ... that "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II?