Portal:Jazz/Did you know/7


 * ... that jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell, while in Germany for the U.S. Army, studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony?
 * ... that three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
 * ... that Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970s?
 * ... that Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers?
 * ... that the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?

January 2007