Portal:Jazz/Did you know/16

... that Dizzy Gillespie (pictured) may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin' High" by a film serial he saw as a child?
... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland?
... that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?

June 2008