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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