Portal:Jazz/Did you know

...that Crossover Jazz retains an emphasis on improvisation but attempts to make that improvisation commercially successful by couching it in a variety of marketable formats?
...that Loose Tubes were called "...the best instrumentalist of their generation (...) the most important band to appear on the British jazz scene" by Time Out?
...that The Sound of Jazz was a landmark television program that was part of CBS's Seven Lively Arts series?
...that Dakota Staton's success lead her to win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising New Comer" award in 1955?