Louis Armstrong & Dave Brubeck - The Real Ambassadors

Format: 12" Album
Catalogue No.: 4640LP
Barcode: 8435723701521
Release Date: 01 Nov 2024
Genre: Jazz

The complete album + 2 bonus tracks pressed on limited edition 180g vinyl.The Real Ambassadors features Louis Armstrong's frst and only recorded collaborations with Dave Brubeck, singer Carmen McRae, and the vocal trio of Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross

The Real Ambassadors project, which delivered a strong political message condemning racism, was an original Broadway play written and composed by Brubeck and his wife Iola.

The Real Ambassadors is a jazz musical developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Dave Brubeck and Lola Brubeck in collaboration withLouis Amstrongand his band. It addressed the Civil Rights Movement, the music business, America's place in the world during theCold War, the nature of God, and other themes.

It was set in a fctional African nation called Talgalla, and its central character was based on Louis Armstrong and his time as a jazz ambassador for the US State Department.It was the frst major large scale musical collaboration between Dave and Iola Brubeck and served as a template for their future musical collaborations. Songs from the musical were recorded by Columbia Records and a soundtrack album was released in 1962, just before the show's premiere at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival with an all-star cast.
(also available on CD: 27293 / 8436028699735)

Tracks: Everybody's Comin' / Cultural Exchange / Good Reviews / Remember Who You Are / My One Bad Habit / Summer Song / King For A Day / Blow Satchmo / The Real Ambassador / Lonesome / In The Lurch / One Moment Worth Years / They Say I Look Like God / Since Love Had Its Way / I Didn't Know Until You Told Me / Swing Bells/ Blow Satchmo/ Finale / You Swing Baby [the Duke]

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