Portal:Jazz/Did you know/9

• ... that Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
• ... that for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
• ... that for Lee Ritenour's first album, First Course, he drafted his friends, including Dave Grusin, Frank Rosolino and Tom Scott, from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City? (pictured, 2009)

June 2007