Portal:Jazz/Did you know/25

May 2010
 * ... that Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP?
 * ... that Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr. (pictured) played Carnegie Hall in 1974?
 * ... that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell?
 * ... that hotel lounge singer Loretta Ables Sayre, in her 2008 Broadway debut in South Pacific was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Theatre World Award?