Portal:Jazz/Did you know/33

... that Urbanus, the Grammy nominated album by Stefon Harris (pictured), was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration?
... that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
... that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West?
... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the Grammy winning Chucho's Steps was dedicated to Joe Zawinul (pictured) who heard a recording of it before he died?

April 2011