Portal:Jazz/Did you know/41


 * ... that not Memphis Slim but 1930s St. Louis blues pianist Pinetop Sparks wrote the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues"?
 * ... that Paquito D'Rivera (pictured) became the first performer to be honored in the Jazz and Classical musical fields after winning a Latin Grammy for the albums Brazilian Dreams and Historia del Soldado?
 * ... that Paquito D'Rivera won a Latin Grammy Award with a suite?
 * ... that in 1933 St. Louis blues singer Dorothea Trowbridge recorded "Grinding Blues", the lyrics of which are cited as an "open declaration of erotic desire"?

May 2013