Portal:Jazz/Did you know/27

• ... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?
• ... that the samba-inspired song "Are You Going With Me?" by the Pat Metheny Group was the background music for a Los Angeles Lakers highlight reel after they won an NBA title?
• ... that Storyville, a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster (pictured), hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker?
• ... that pianist and session musician Don Randi claims to have played on over three hundred hit records?

August/September 2010