Portal:Jazz/Did you know/37

... that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA, and he is now a professional jazz musician?
... that Megitza (pictured), the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
... that for years Smalls Jazz Club did not serve alcohol?
... that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll" – the opening riff to Chuck Berry's 1958 hit "Johnny B. Goode" – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan?
... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
... that the use of noise by Ottoman military bands inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?

February - May 2012