Portal:Jazz/Did you know/24

... that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose (pictured) only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
... that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet recording?
... that Lena Horne (pictured) won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music?
... that "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II?

January - April 2010