Portal:Jazz/Did you know/23

... that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson (pictgured) of the John Jorgenson Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds?
... that P53, a live album by experimental music group P53, features two classical grand pianists, a turntablist and a real-time sampler/processor?
... that the American progressive rock/avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene?
... that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Big Joe Duskin, had not touched a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil's music?
... that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
... that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?

September - December 2009