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Vor 4 Tagen · This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz with political murder. Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ties between Belgium and Congo, shining a light on the United Nations, jazz as a political agent and the plot to assassinate Congo’s ...
4. Juni 2024 · The Jazz Ambassadors is the title of a new film documenting the initiative by the U.S. State Department under the Eisenhower administration to send jazz musicians abroad to promote democracy and build bridges with the artistic and intellectual communities behind the Iron Curtain and throughout the Middle East in 1958, in the midst of ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Since world renowned composer Aaron Copland headed to South America during World War II and the more widely known Jazz Ambassadors sang scat behind the Iron Curtain from the 1950s through early 1970s, the United States called upon American musicians and artists to use music as a diplomatic tool to promote peace and democracy. Now ...
Vor einem Tag · Zev Feldman ist bekannt für sein Gespür, verlorene oder unveröffentlichte Schätze Jazzfans auf der ganzen Welt zugänglich zu machen. Fanny Opitz hat mit dem "Jazz Detective" über seine Reise ...
Vor 4 Tagen · This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades as the earliest and greatest ambassador of America's first true musical art form. With the liberating effects of the Jazz Age reverberating on world ... read more
20. Juni 2024 · Art Kane’s A Great Day in Harlem is one of the most famous photographs in jazz history. Taken in 1958, it shows 57 prominent musicians – including Sonny Rollins, Count Basie, Lester Young and Mary Lou Williams – in front of a Harlem brownstone house, and is a remarkable document of one of jazz’s real golden ages.
Vor 2 Tagen · Over 30 years, Armstrong played more than 300 performances a year, making many recordings and appearing in over 30 films. A jazz ambassador Armstrong in 1955. By the 1950s, Armstrong was a widely beloved American icon and cultural ambassador who commanded an international fanbase.
