The Jazz Ambassadors

[Old Grumpy]

The Jazz Ambassadors - a new film documenting the initiative by the US State Department under the Eisenhower administration to start sending jazz musicians abroad, promoting an inage of a racially integrated society and giving a lift to the Civil Rights movement.

This is to be broadcast on BBC4 on Friday 4th May at 9pm.

Interview with the film's director, Hugo Berkeley here.

My video machine is set - betamax at the ready!

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

The Jazz Ambassadors - a new film documenting the initiative by the US State Department under the Eisenhower administration to start sending jazz musicians abroad, promoting an inage of a racially integrated society and giving a lift to the Civil Rights movement.

This is to be broadcast on BBC4 on Friday 4th May at 9pm.

Interview with the film's director, Hugo Berkeley here.

My video machine is set - betamax at the ready!

OG

Yes I even included it in my listings for this week!

It probably does deserve a thread of its own, so don't worry, OG; I'm probably just feeling a little under-appreciated at the moment!

[Old Grumpy]

Oops! So you did - I was obviously distracted by developments on the Korean peninsula

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Oops! So you did - I was obviously distracted by developments on the Korean peninsula

OG

Or even the Corean perninsula, following Alyn's contribution to that particular thread!

[Alyn_Shipton]

No Corea here, but there's a lot about the State dept tours here, which might somewhat add to Dizzy's own account in his memoirs: https://global.oup.com/academic/prod...cc=gb&lang=en&

[Old Grumpy]

Or even the Corean perninsula, following Alyn's contribution to that particular thread!

But probably not the Chorean Peninsula - patron saint, St Vitus - somewhere on the coast near Sydenham!

[Ein Heldenleben]

This is a really good doc - if there is one musician I would give anything to have seen live it would be Louis Armstrong .....

[Serial_Apologist]

This is a really good doc - if there is one musician I would give anything to have seen live it would be Louis Armstrong .....

Really good - there was a lot to learn from it.

[Jazzrook]

Really good - there was a lot to learn from it.

A really fascinating programme with great archive footage and an illuminating contribution from Robin D.G. Kelley(Monk's biographer).
Also excellent on Willis Conover & the Voice of America which was one of my earliest introductions to modern jazz in the early '60s.
Glad I recorded it!

JR

[Stunsworth]

I missed the first half hour but really enjoyed what I saw. I’ll have to watch the whole programme on iPlayer.

Two excellent documentaries in a fortnight - Jeff Beck last week, and this yesterday.

Off topic, but the Beck programme prompted me to rewatch the Live at Ronnie Scott’s concert, what an absolute cracker.