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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.

2004

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 • ... that The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973?
 • ... that Wingy Manone's "Tar Paper Stomp" was used as the basis for Glenn Miller's "In the Mood"? (Manone pictured, right)
 • ... that the real name of drummer Mel Lewis (pictured, left) was Melvin Sokoloff?

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2006

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 • ... that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga (pictured, right) is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
 • ... 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 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"?


January - May 2006

 
 

 • ... that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds (pictured, left) wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
 • ... that the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS
 • ... that Erin Bode (pictured, right) performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer?


June - December 2006

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July 2007

 
Éva Gauthier wearing a Javanese headdress
 
 

 • ... that the song "See See Rider" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis?
 • ... that Éva Gauthier (pictured, left) was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
 • ... that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion (pictured, right), an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
 • ... that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
 • ... that The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker's mentor Buster Smith?
 • ... that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet (Adderly brothers pictured), reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
August - December 2007

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 • ... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding (pictured) became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
 • ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
 • ... that the Dunbar Hotel (pictured) was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?


June 2008

 
 
Harris Theater


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2011

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February 2011

 
 

 • ... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?
 • ... that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
 • ... that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
 • ... that James Moody (pictured, left) received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
 • ... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
 • ... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty (pictured, right)?
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 • ... that jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal's first live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me, recorded in 1958, has sold over one million copies? (Jamal pictured)
 • ... that Cal Lampley formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
 • ... that the Lincoln Theater (pictured) in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
 • ... that musician David Rothenberg appears in a YouTube video playing jazz with cassini periodical cicadas, insects noted for their synchronized rhythm?
June/July 2011

 


August - December 2011

2012

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February - May 2012

 
A seven-string guitar with the open strings annotated with the notes D-G-B-D-G-B-D
 
Baseball player Van Lingle Mungo


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May 2013

 
 

 • ... that Duke Ellington praised pianist Maurice Rocco's sophisticated performance style? (Rocco pictured, left)
 • ... that flamenco percussionist Tino di Geraldo (pictured, right) produced Jackson Browne's album Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, in which he was featured?
 • ... that the AC/DC song "Whole Lotta Rosie" has an opening riff directly mimicking a track from the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Countdown—Time in Outer Space?
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April - July 2014

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