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  1. Jun 4, 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 the Cold War.

  2. 6 days ago · More and more jazz ambassadors – including Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Melba Liston – were sent out to newly independent countries to perform alongside covert CIA operations. But that led to internal struggles.

  3. Jun 20, 2024 · Jazz has always been a fertile ground for filmmakers, but the last few years have seen a flurry of jazz documentaries being made. Here are 10 of the best.

  4. 6 days ago · 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

  5. 3 days ago · A jazz ambassador Armstrong in 1955. By the 1950s, Armstrong was a widely beloved American icon and cultural ambassador who commanded an international fanbase. However, a growing generation gap became apparent between him and the young jazz musicians who emerged in the postwar era such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Sonny Rollins.

  6. 5 days ago · The project centers around a group of genre-spanning artists who will act as musical ambassadors. Chuck D, Herbie Hancock, Jelly Roll, Armani White, Breland, Denyce Graves, Grace Bowers, Justin ...

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  8. 3 days ago · 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.