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