Portal:Jazz/Did you know/26

... that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler (pictured) lives in Canada?
... that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte (pictured) began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Getty Center?
... that African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
... that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song "Bad Penny Blues" has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna"?

June/July 2010