Portal:Jazz/Did you know/45

... that Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer Wynton Kelly toured the Caribbean with an R&B band at age 15?
... that pianist Brad Mehldau (pictured) compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
... that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential jazz pianist?
... that on the music chart week ending November 30, 2013, Wrapped in Red was the only non-Universal Music Group release to chart inside the Billboard 200's top ten?

April - July 2014