Portal:Jazz/Did you know/26

June/July 2010
 * ... that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler (pictured) lives in Canada?
 * ... that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte (pictured) began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Getty Center?
 * ... that African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
 * ... that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song "Bad Penny Blues" has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna"?