Portal:Jazz/Did you know/45


 * ... that Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer Wynton Kelly toured the Caribbean with an R&B band at age 15?
 * ... that pianist Brad Mehldau (pictured) compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
 * ... that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential jazz pianist?
 * ... that on the music chart week ending November 30, 2013, Wrapped in Red was the only non-Universal Music Group release to chart inside the Billboard 200's top ten?

April - July 2014