Portal:Jazz/Did you know/33

April 2011
 * ... that Urbanus, the Grammy nominated album by Stefon Harris (pictured), was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration?
 * ... that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
 * ... that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
 * ... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West?
 * ... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the Grammy winning Chucho's Steps was dedicated to Joe Zawinul (pictured) who heard a recording of it before he died?