amazing Duke Ellington film

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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

 

 

[EKE BBB]

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)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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

[medjuck]

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

[EKE BBB]

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

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

cool, ill look it up-