Jazz Legend facts
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Vocal jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice.
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Vocal jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was once starstruck when he found jazz legend Miles Davis swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. Hoffman played it cool and pretended he didn't know who the mysterious man was and his indifference earned him an afternoon chat about everything except music.
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Jazz legend George Melly once asked Mick Jagger why his face was so wrinkled. Jagger told him they were "laughter lines". Melly replied "Nothing's that funny."
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Jazz legend Billie Holiday was raised in a brothel by teenage parents, worked as a prostitute alongside her mother, was addicted to heroin her entire life and, weeks before her death at 44, was arrested for heroin possession in her hospital bed.
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Jazz legend Dave Brubeck was nearly expelled from college because he could not read music. The college was afraid it would cause a scandal, and agreed to let Brubeck graduate only after he had promised to never teach piano.
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After John Coltrane's death in 1967, a congregation began worshipping him as God-incarnate (and subsequently as a saint). Today, the St. John Coltrane Church in San Fransisco is the only African Orthodox Church to incorporate the jazz legend's music and lyrics as prayers in its liturgy.
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The actress Rashida Jones (Ann Perkins on Parks & Recreation; Karen Filippelli on The Office) is daughter of jazz legend Quincy Jones
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The musician Flying Lotus is the great-nephew of jazz legend John Coltrane.
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Jazz legend Billie Holiday was arrested and sent to jail for prostitution at age fourteen.
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Jazz legend Charlie Parker invented Bebop music because he thought it would be too hard for white musicians to imitate
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Jazz legend Charlie Parker invented Bebop music because he thought it would be too hard for white musicians to imitate
