Portal:Jazz/Did you know/22

... that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
... that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl, a whole month before its CD release?
... that the Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues" (1917) was the first released jazz recording? (historical 1917 sheet music pictured)
... that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová (pictured) invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
... that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin', Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin'?

August 2009