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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==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/1|2004]]===
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==2005==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/2|January/February]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/3|March - June]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/4|July - December]]===
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==2006==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/5|January - May]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/6|June - December]]===
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==2007==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/7|Jazz/January]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/8|Jazz/February - May]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/9|Jazz/June]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/10|Jazz/July #1]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/10}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/11|Jazz/July #2]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/11}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/12|Jazz/August - December]]===
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==2008==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/13|January]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/14|March/April]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/15|Jazz/June #1]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/16|Jazz/June #2]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/17|Jazz/July - December]]===
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==2009==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/18|January - April]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/19|May]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/20|June]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/21|July]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/21}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/22|August]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/22}}

===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/23|September - December]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/23}}

==2010==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/24|January - April]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/25|May]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/26|June/July]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/27|August/September]]===
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===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/28|October]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/28}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/29|November/December]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/29}}

==2011==
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/30|January]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/31}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/31|February]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/32}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/32|March]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/32}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/33|April]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/33}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/34|May]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/34}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/35|June/July]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/35}}
===[[Portal:Jazz/Did you know/36|August - December]]===
{{Portal:Jazz/Did you know/36}}

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January|2011|entry=... that singer '''[[Gary Williams (singer)|Gary Williams]]''' played [[Frank Sinatra]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] production of ''[[The Rat Pack: Live From Las Vegas|The Rat Pack]]''?
*January|2011|entry=... that the album '''''[[A Time for Love (Arturo Sandoval album)|A Time for Love]]''''' recorded by [[Arturo Sandoval]] was inspired by trumpeter [[Bobby Hackett]] and the album ''[[Clifford Brown with Strings]]''?
*January|2011|entry=... that after losing a job, the '''[[The Original Salty Dogs Jazz Band|Salty Dogs Jazz Band]]''' would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
*January|2011|entry=... that [[Duke Ellington]]'s 1940 live recording '''''[[Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live|At Fargo]]''''' was an amateur [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] not officially released until 1978?
*January|2011|entry=... that three different versions of "'''[[Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)|Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree]]'''" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?

*February|2011|entry=... that the track "Palermo" from the [[Chicago Underground Duo|Chicago Underground Trio's]] album '''''[[Slon (album)|Slon]]''''' contains recorded sounds from a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[fish market]]?
*February|2011|entry=... that '''[[Dani Siciliano]]''' wanted her [[Cover version|cover]] of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s "[[Come as You Are (Nirvana song)|Come as You Are]]", from her album '''''[[Likes...]]''''', to have the feel of a [[jazz standard]]?
*File:Machito and his sister Graciella Grillo.jpg
*February|2011|entry=... that during his [[United States Army]] service, [[Graciela]] replaced her [[Foster care|foster]] brother '''[[Machito]]''' ''(pictured)'' as the lead singer of his band, the [[Afro-Cubans (band)|Afro-Cubans]]?
*February|2011|entry=... that [[Dave Douglas (trumpeter)|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]]?
*Feb{{mp}}... that "'''[[Here I Stand (Usher song)|Here I Stand]]'''", a song by [[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]], was compared to the work of [[Stevie Wonder]], and was nominated for a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]]?
*February|2011|entry=... that '''[[Tony Burrello]]'''{{`s}} [[Single (music)|single]] "There's a New Sound" was described by ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?

*March|2011|entry=... that [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]]'s [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] nominated album '''''[[To the One]]''''' was inspired by [[John Coltrane]]'s album ''[[A Love Supreme]]''?
*March 2011|dykentry=... that [[Stanley Clarke]]'s album '''''[[The Stanley Clarke Band]]''''' won the [[53rd Grammy Awards|2011]] [[Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album]]?
*March|2011|entry=... that the [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated album '''''[[Now Is the Time (Jeff Lorber Fusion album)|Now Is the Time]]''''' features the [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] [[horn section]] on two of its tracks?
*File:JamesMoody.jpg
*March|2011|entry=... that [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]] ''(pictured)'' received his first [[Grammy Award]] for '''''[[Moody 4B]]''''' after he died?
*March|2011|entry=... that [[Joey DeFrancesco]]{{'s}} tribute to [[Michael Jackson]], '''''[[Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson]]''''', was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]]?
*March|2011|entry=... that [[Lenny Kravitz]] was a guest musician on '''''[[Backatown]]''''', the [[record label|major label]] debut by his former apprentice [[Troy Andrews|Trombone Shorty]]?

* April|2011|entry=... that '''''[[Urbanus (album)|Urbanus]]''''', the [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] nominated album by [[Stefon Harris]], was recorded in the days leading up to [[Inauguration of Barack Obama|Barack Obama's inauguration]]?
*April|2011|entry=... that [[jazz guitarist]] [[Julian Lage]] recorded his [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated debut album '''''[[Sounding Point]]''''' when he was only 20 years old?
*April|2011|entry=... that music writer [[Piero Scaruffi]] called the 1980s American [[experimental rock]] group the '''[[Orthotonics]]''', "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
*April|2011|entry=... that saxophonist [[King Curtis]] was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album '''''[[Live at Fillmore West]]'''''?
*April 2011|dykentry=... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] winning '''''[[Chucho's Steps]]''''' was dedicated to [[Joe Zawinul]] who heard a recording of it before he died?

*May{{mp}}... that although [[Ray Charles]] and [[Nancy Sinatra]] solos of "'''[[Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song)|Here We Go Again]]'''" made [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'''s Hot 100]], Charles' 2004 duet with [[Norah Jones]] became the second [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Grammy Record of the Year]] that did not?
*May|2011|entry=... that [[Willie Nelson]], [[Wynton Marsalis]] and [[Norah Jones]] recorded a [[Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles|'''live tribute album''']] covering songs of [[Ray Charles]]?
* May|2011|entry=... that [[Philippe Saisse]]'s [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated album '''''[[At World's Edge]]''''' was dedicated to his father Maurice?}}
*May 2011 ... that most of '''''[[75 (album)|75]]''''' was recorded on [[Joe Zawinul]]'s 75th birthday and about two months before he died?
*May|2011|entry=... that [[Steve Vai]] plays the [[sitar]] on "Moroccan Roll", a track from [[Mike Stern]]'s [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated album '''''[[Big Neighborhood]]'''''?

*June|2011|entry=... 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?}}
*June|2011|entry=... that '''[[Cal Lampley]]''' formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
*June|2011|entry=... that the '''[[Lincoln Theater (Los Angeles, California)|Lincoln Theater]]''' in [[Los Angeles]] was known as the "West Coast [[Apollo Theater|Apollo]]" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
*July|2011|entry=... that musician '''[[David Rothenberg]]''' appears in a YouTube video playing jazz with '''[[cassini periodical cicadas]]''', insects noted for their synchronized rhythm?

*August|2011|entry=... that [[Kid Ory]]'s composition "'''[[Ory's Creole Trombone]]'''" was the first jazz record made by a black orchestra?
*September|2011|entry=... that '''[[Mircea Florian (musician)|Mircea Florian]]''', seen as one of the four leading [[Protest song|protest singers]] in [[Communist Romania]] in his [[folk rock]] years, pioneered [[minimal music]] in his career as a computer scientist?
*File:Dira Sugandi in concert crop.jpg
*October|2011|entry=... that '''[[Dira Sugandi]]''' was awarded the Indonesian Young Jazz Talent Award for her duet with [[Jason Mraz]]?
*December|2011|entry=... that '''''[[Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding]]''''' featured [[Papa Celestin]]'s final recording session before his death?

==2012==
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*February|2012|entry=... that a broken right ankle prevented '''[[Earl Belcher]]''' from playing in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], and he is now a professional [[jazz]] musician?
*File:Megitza at Copernicus Theater.jpg
*April 2012|dykentry=... that '''[[Megitza]]''', the vocalist and [[Double bass|bass]] player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
*May|2012|entry=... that for years '''[[Smalls Jazz Club]]''' did not serve alcohol?
*May|2012|entry=... that the "most famous signature in [[rock 'n' roll]]" – the opening [[riff]] to [[Chuck Berry]]'s 1958 hit "[[Johnny B. Goode]]" – was actually a [[jazz]] riff played 12 years earlier by '''[[Carl Hogan]]'''?
*May|2012|entry=... that jazz trio '''[[BADBADNOTGOOD]]''' had a crowd [[moshing]] at a [[J Dilla]] tribute show?
*May|2012|entry=... that the '''[[noise in music|use of noise]]''' by [[Ottoman military band]]s inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?
*[[File:RussianSevenStringTuning.jpg|100x100px|A seven-string guitar with the open strings annotated with the notes D-G-B-D-G-B-D]]
*{{mp}}... that the [[Russian&nbsp;guitar]]'s D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning ''(illustrated)'' approximates the '''[[major thirds tuning|major-thirds tuning]]''' D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
*September|2012|entry=... that poet [[Ishmael Reed]] learned to play jazz piano at the '''[[Jazzschool]]''' beginning when he was 60?
*Sep{{mp}}... that the music of Ornette&nbsp;Coleman, John&nbsp;Coltrane, and Arnold&nbsp;Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist '''[[Ralph Patt]]''' to invent [[major thirds tuning|major-thirds tuning]]?
*File:Van Lingle Mungo 1940 Play Ball card.jpeg
*September|2012|entry=... that [[Dave Frishberg]] wrote the lyrics to "'''[[Van Lingle Mungo (song)|Van Lingle Mungo]]'''" while reading a baseball encyclopedia?

==2013==
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*January|2013|entry=... that [[Dave Brubeck]]'s wife Iola wrote the lyrics to "'''[[In Your Own Sweet Way]]'''"?
*February|2013|entry=... that the 1969 song "'''[[It's Too Bad]]'''" by [[Jimi Hendrix]] was considered newly discovered thirty years later when it was added to ''[[The Jimi Hendrix Experience (album)|The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]'' (2000) album?
*March|2013|entry=... that [[Bebo Valdés|Bebo]] and [[Chucho Valdés]] won the [[Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album|Grammy]] and the [[Latin Grammy Award]] for '''[[Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album|Best Latin Jazz Album]]''' for their album ''[[Juntos Para Siempre (Bebo Valdés and Chucho Valdés album)|Juntos Para Siempre]]''?
*April {{mp}}... that '''''[[Supernova (Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio album)|Supernova]]''''' by Cuban pianist [[Gonzalo Rubalcaba]]'s trio was beaten to a [[Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album|Grammy Award]] by an album produced and performed by Rubalcaba?
*April|2013|entry=... that the album '''''[[Solo (Gonzalo Rubalcaba album)|Solo]]''''' by Cuban pianist [[Gonzalo Rubalcaba]] includes songs inspired by [[John Coltrane]]'s ''[[Giant Steps]]''?
*April|2013|entry=... that '''''[[Akokan (album)|Akokan]]''''', [[Roberto Fonseca]]'s sixth studio album, features some "lovely [[saxophone|sax]] work"?}}
*May|2013|entry=... that not [[Memphis Slim]] but 1930s [[St. Louis]] blues pianist '''[[Pinetop Sparks]]''' wrote the blues standard "[[Every Day I Have the Blues]]"?
* May|2013|entry=... that [[Paquito D'Rivera]] became the first performer to be honored in the Jazz and Classical musical fields after winning a [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album|Latin Grammy]] for the albums '''''[[Brazilian Dreams]]''''' and ''Historia del Soldado''?
*May|2013|entry=... that in 1933 St. Louis blues singer '''[[Dorothea Trowbridge]]''' recorded "Grinding Blues", the lyrics of which are cited as an "open declaration of erotic desire"?
*May|2013|entry=... that [[Paquito D'Rivera]] won a [[Latin Grammy Award]] with a '''[[Panamericana Suite|suite]]'''?
*File:Maurice Rocco 1944.jpg
*July|2013|entry=... that [[Duke Ellington]] praised pianist '''[[Maurice Rocco]]'''{{`s}} sophisticated performance style?
*File:Tino di Geraldo.jpg
*July|2013|entry=... that [[flamenco]] percussionist '''[[Tino di Geraldo]]''' produced [[Jackson Browne]]'s album ''[[Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino]]'', in which he was featured?
*July|2013|entry=... 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]]'''''?
*August|2013|entry=... that '''[[Jackie Davis]]''', who had a [[bit part]] in ''[[Caddyshack]]'', was an accomplished jazz organist, preceding the better known [[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]] by several years?
*August|2013|entry=... that jazz organist [[Joey DeFrancesco]] obtained a stake in '''[[Diversi]]''' after playing one of their [[clonewheel organ]]s?
*File:Gerity-hires.jpg
*November|2013|entry= ... that in the 35th year of her career, [[blues]] singer '''[[Julia Gerity]]''' lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at [[Coney Island]]?

==2014==
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*January|2014|entry= ... that the 1932 jazz standard "'''[[Moten Swing]]'''" was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of [[swing music]]?
*January|2014|entry= ... that an agent liked the sound of '''[[Onzy Matthews]]'''{{`s}} band and music but expressed concern after seeing the band was racially mixed?
*February|2014|entry= ... that as of January 2014, '''''[[Desfado]]''''' by [[fado]] singer [[Ana Moura]] has not dropped from the [[Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa|Portuguese Albums Chart]] Top 20 since its release in November 2012?
*File:Divadlo Minaret.jpg
*February|2014|entry= ... that U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] participated in a [[jam session]] at '''[[Reduta Jazz Club]]''' during a 1994 visit to the [[Czech Republic]]?
*April|2014|entry= ... that [[Jamaican American]] [[jazz]] pianist and composer '''[[Wynton Kelly]]''' toured the Caribbean with an R&B band at age 15?
*File:Brad Mehldau.jpg
* May|2014|entry= ... that pianist '''[[Brad Mehldau]]''' compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
*July|2014|entry= ... that '''[[Elmo Hope]]''' survived being shot by New York police to become an influential [[List of jazz pianists|jazz pianist]]?
*July ... 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|''Billboard'' 200]]'s top ten?


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