![]() ![]() that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds (pictured, left) wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five? that Katie Melua (pictured, left) agreed to re-record her song " Nine Million Bicycles" (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh, who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"? that the 1934 jazz standard " Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833? (Alabama license plate pictured) that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga (pictured, right) is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz? Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer? that Dennis Berry (pictured, centre top) was a musician, composer, arranger and producer who not only produced the music to the first Monty Python film, but has also had his music featured on the BBC's Little Britain, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob Squarepants? that Miles Copeland, Jr., the father of Stewart and Miles III, was a CIA spy involved in several Mideast coups, but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller? that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old? that Doc Cheatham (pictured) ( 1905– 1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70? that a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member? that a double tonic is a basic chord progression or melodic motion extremely common in African, Asian, and European music consisting of a "regular back-and-forth motion" most commonly between notes a whole tone apart? that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the " bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker? that Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa? ![]() that the Squirrel Nut Zippers (pictured) were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz? that the real name of drummer Mel Lewis (pictured, left) was Melvin Sokoloff?Ģ004 2005 January/February that Wingy Manone's "Tar Paper Stomp" was used as the basis for Glenn Miller's " In the Mood"? (Manone pictured, right) that The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973? This a complete list, by year, of all the jazz-related articles which have appeared on the main page of Wikipedia, in the "Did You Know" section. ![]()
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