Duke Ellington - Jazz Ambassador

 

This week's Sunday Special.  

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Excerpt from The Jazz Ambassadors, an excellent documentary now available on YouTube:    • The Jazz Ambassadors (2018) FULL SPEC...   In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. convinced President Eisenhower that jazz was the best way to intervene in the Cold War cultural conflict. For the next decade, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Dave Brubeck traveled the globe to perform as cultural ambassadors.