chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 does anyone know when/where this was recorded- simply amazing. they bright the lights down for all the solos, its really a show-- cannot believe this was recorded-- wowowow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 14 November 1963. Khuld Hall, Baghdad, Iraq. One of the latest concerts of Duke Ellington's First State Department Tour through the Near East and South Asia (Sep.-Nov. 1963) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) wow! they must of had some really good food- incredible they jammed everywhere So the govt seriously payed jazz musicians to play jazz all over world as a program to get other parts of the world warm to america via jazz music? Has anyone ever FOIA'd the stuff for this- i wonder what their intentions were Edited April 26, 2020 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) On 4/24/2020 at 11:42 PM, EKE BBB said: 14 November 1963. Khuld Hall, Baghdad, Iraq. One of the latest concerts of Duke Ellington's First State Department Tour through the Near East and South Asia (Sep.-Nov. 1963) After a long exchange of info on the Duke-LYM list serve it was concluded that the concert is from Lebanon a couple of days later. The video is from Lebanese tv. Thanks for posting it. 1 hour ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said: wow! they must of had some really good food- incredible they jammed everywhere So the govt seriously payed jazz musicians to play jazz all over world as a program to get other parts of the world warm to america via jazz music? Has anyone ever FOIA'd the stuff for this- i wonder what their intentions were There's a book about it: https://smile.amazon.com/Satchmo-Blows-Up-World-Ambassadors-ebook/dp/B002PAPTMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=JAZZ+AMBASSADORS&qid=1587871724&s=books&sr=1-1 Edited April 26, 2020 by medjuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, medjuck said: After a long exchange of info on the Duke-LYM list serve it was concluded that the concert is from Lebanon a couple of days later. The video is from Lebanese tv. Thanks for posting it. There's a book about it: https://smile.amazon.com/Satchmo-Blows-Up-World-Ambassadors-ebook/dp/B002PAPTMM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=JAZZ+AMBASSADORS&qid=1587871724&s=books&sr=1-1 Thanks for the correction, Joe. For some reason I missed that discussion on duke-lym. Edited April 26, 2020 by EKE BBB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted April 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 cool, ill look it up- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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