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‘The Jazz Ambassadors’: When Dizzy and Satchmo Diplomacy Swung the Cold War

‘The Jazz Ambassadors’: When Dizzy and Satchmo Diplomacy Swung the Cold War

Filmmaker Hugo Berkeley, historian Penny M. Von Eschen, and musician Darius Brubeck talk with Will Layman about the State Department's decision to send Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, and others around the world to help win the Cold War.