The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...

As with any subject, history can be explored in a number of ways. In high school and college, students might study it through ...

Event organizers in the Denver metro area are pulling out the stops for Black History Month with music, art, history, and ...

Along the way, jazz ambassadors including Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie are unaware, as they travel to perform, of the movements of covert CIA operatives. “This is what you might call a cool war ...

sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in ...

Jazz in Saudi Arabia With the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz… and The State Department ...

Interview - Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader ...

James Monroe Iglehart as Louis Armstrong, and company ... on the Harlem Renaissance and touring the world as the U.S. Jazz Ambassador. Broadway jazz musicals rarely arrive on the Great White ...

Musical genius Duke Ellington crafted nearly 2,000 compositions across five remarkable decades, enchanting audiences through ...

They sent black jazz ambassadors across Asia and Africa to win the hearts and minds of sort of the global south,” Grimonprez says. For example, Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential figures in ...