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    Jazz ambassadors is the name often given to jazz musicians who were sponsored by the US State Department to tour Eastern Europe, the Middle East, central...
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  • The Real Ambassadors is a jazz musical developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Dave and Iola Brubeck, in collaboration with Louis Armstrong and...
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    performing components: the Concert Band, the Soldiers' Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors, the Six-String Soldiers, and the Commercial Music Group, which includes...
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    that would make goodwill ambassadors (ambassadors of goodwill) for the state. Elvis Presley, well known as a Goodwill Ambassador for many causes and ideas...
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    celebrated annually on April 30. The idea came from jazz pianist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock. Jazz Day is chaired by Hancock and the UNESCO Director-General...
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    Louis Armstrong (category African-American jazz musicians)
    success, earning the nickname "Ambassador Satch" and inspiring Dave Brubeck to compose his jazz musical The Real Ambassadors. By 1968, he was approaching...
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    for human rights, aiming to bring his case before the UN. As Black jazz ambassadors are performing unaware amidst covert CIA operativess, the likes of...
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    Laufey (singer) (category Jazz-pop singers)
    prominence in the early 2020s for her success as a jazz-inspired pop artist, with critics stating that her jazz-inflected songs have received considerable success...
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    choir program. Showstoppers is a mixed-gender show choir group, while Jazz Ambassadors is a mixed-gender choir. Both groups regularly compete within Montgomery...
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  • Hank Levy (category American jazz composers)
    The Jazz Ambassadors on The Legacy of Hank Levy) "Along Came Ritchie" 3 1/2 4, 7 2 and 7 4 (recorded by Towson State University Jazz Ensemble on Jazz) "Ambivalence"...
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