Cellist Alex Prizgintas leads an historical overview and noted selections from many of America’s great Jazz artists, such as Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington. The term “Jazz Ambassadors” refers to the state-funded 1950s program where American musicians were sent on tours behind the iron curtain.
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