No Help for That | Jackie Clark

When Ambassadors Had Rhythm

I forgot to mention yesterday that I read this really great article in the Times about the Jazz Ambassadors program, which began around 1956. I don’t know why I was surprised to see the good that comes from music, even if the musicians were being used by the administration to one up the Russians. Those kids look pretty happy. Kind of made me proud of jazz music as a whole. Proud to answer phones at a jazz institution. Ha.