Portal:Jazz/Did you know/31

... that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market?
... that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana's "Come as You Are", from her album Likes..., to have the feel of a jazz standard?
... that during his United States Army service, Graciela replaced her foster brother Machito (both pictured) as the lead singer of his band, the Afro-Cubans?
... that Dave Douglas got the name for his album Strange Liberation from a phrase used by Martin Luther King Jr. in reference to America's involvement in the Vietnam War?
... that "Here I Stand", a song by Usher, was compared to the work of Stevie Wonder, and was nominated for a Grammy Award?
... that Tony Burrello's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?

February 2011