Various Artists: Jam Session - America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace The World
After World War II, Voice of America radio broadcasts by Leonard Feather and Willis Conover helped to lay the foundation for subsequent tours. U.S. State Department sponsored the tours that sent America's Jazz Ambassadors around the world. They travelled from 1955 to the '70s and visited such different places as the Soviet Union, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, India, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Philippines, Ceylon, Japan, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Chile, Argentina and Europe. Everywhere they played they were very well received and did a fantastic job as "Good Will Jazz Ambassadors".The Jam Session CD contains music with some of the Ambassadors:Louis Armstrong And His All Stars: Someday You Will Be Sorry; When The Saints Go Marching InDave Brubeck Quartet: The Golden Horn; Thank YouBenny Carter Quartet: Blue Star; Summer SerenadeDuke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra: Perdido; Things Ain?t What They Used To BeDizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra: Cool Breeze; ManteccaWoody Herman And His Orchestra: Sleepy Serenade; Starlight SouvenirsClark Terry & His Orchestra feat. Paul Gonsalves: Blues For The Champ Of Champs; Daniel?s Blues.