Portal:Jazz/Did you know/13
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January 2008
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- ... that the Midwestern United States territory band leader Nat Towles' fear of losing his best musicians kept him from striving for national prominence in the 1930s and 40s?
- ... that the 1956 My Fair Lady by Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical?
- ... that The Hazel Scott Show was the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman? (Hazel Scott pictured)