Portal:Jazz/Did you know/45
< Portal:Jazz | Did you know
- ... 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