Portal:Jazz/Did you know/30

January 2011
 * ... that singer Gary Williams (pictured) played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack?
 * ... that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings?
 * ... that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
 * ... that Duke Ellington's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
 * ... that three different versions of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year? (Andrews Sisters pictured)