Portal:Jazz/Did you know/43

August - November 2013
 * ... that Jackie Davis, who had a bit part in Caddyshack, was an accomplished jazz organist, preceding the better known Jimmy Smith by several years?
 * ... that jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco obtained a stake in Diversi after playing one of their clonewheel organs?
 * ... that in the 35th year of her career, blues singer Julia Gerity (pictured) lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at Coney Island?