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The Jazz Ambassadors at Vinterjazz at Gloria Biograf

Courtesy of pelle folmer | Posted on January 24, 2019

Where

Gloria Biograf
Vinterjazz

Rådhuspladsen 59
Copenhagen
Map
+45 33 12 42 92

The Jazz Ambassadors at Vinterjazz at Gloria Biograf

When

Wed, February 20, 2019
14:30

At Door

75 DKK

Musicians

About

SYNOPSIS

The Cold War and Civil Rights movement collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, African-American Congressman 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, America’s most influential jazz artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Dave Brubeck, along with their racially-integrated bands, traveled the globe to perform as cultural ambassadors...

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