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A Conference of Ambassadors: Igor Butman and Wynton Marsalis Celebrate Their 60th-Birthday in Moscow
The history of jazz in Russia does not begin with the fabled U.S. State Department-sponsored traveling shows of the so-called Jazz Ambassadors, which brought a number of American jazz greats to Eastern European countries and beyond during the years of the Cold War. It is, in fact, an almost 100-year-old history waiting to be rediscovered. Keep reading »
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Marsalis cheers blue Russia Music
“And the other,” said Marsalis, “is swing. Swing is the sound of a group of people working together, talking to each other, trying to coordinate.” The audience burst into applause, because they were hanging on every word Marsalis had to say, but this was the crux of it. Keep reading »