Portal:Jazz/Did you know/12
• ... that the song "See See Rider" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis?
• ... that Éva Gauthier (pictured, left) was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
• ... that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion (pictured, right), an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
• ... that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
• ... that The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker's mentor Buster Smith?
• ... that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet (Adderly brothers pictured), reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
August - December 2007