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on a chilly evening in september 1962,

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the real ambassador's a

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musical written by dave and i brubeck

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was performed at the the monterey jazz

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festival it was unusual and

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that ended a , cast

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of well known artists in the heat

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and the civil rights movement challenging

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racial prejudice and social injustice

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through chef the

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kids and sisters and brandy how present

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the real ambassador

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once again it's time for the dave brubeck

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show mike , here and

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sitting across from me is a friend of

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dave brubeck brubeck good friend to

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iowa brubeck first

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only when and did the original idea

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original idea broadway show caliber

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about five years ago when we

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were still living in california davis

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flying on the east i came out on summer

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and i went to i guess or

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a musical that was running at that

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time i went over first one

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night which ask

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no when i listen

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to joey

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joe williams was that thank you know

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the goose pimples as

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the one who really reached the most

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read me

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much greater any

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as a broadway show with all the great

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then i thought to myself time

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to do earlier

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the as music

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yeah we started writing show

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based on a jazz band

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headed by louis armstrong on

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a state department tour of the world

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and nineteen sixty eight days himself actually

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went on a state department tour

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i didn't i

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santa ana

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tour and ,

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the was great conflict between united

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states and russia to help bring

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our culture together this was

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such a wonderful move

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to make to show the great

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discipline of jazz and

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the great freedom the

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jazz ambassadors for to gallatin

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dave brubeck gillespie

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were chosen to go overseas on

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behalf of us are sam my name is

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keith how chests author of the real

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ambassadors days in

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iowa brubeck and louis armstrong

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challenge segregation yeah

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they're bachelors who were largely african

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american were really treated like royalty

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overseas fucking the got home they were

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immediately subject isn't the same planet jim

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crow of mr armstrong you'll

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have to come in through the loading dock at the waldorf

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astoria you can actually come into the front

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door even though you're playing york that

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, an injustice that really started gnawing

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at my dad i'm chris brubeck

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the third child of dave in

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iowa brubeck brubeck mom's

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reaction was to write the real

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ambassadors before

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they left and nineteen fifty eight

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on the tumor

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they had to go to a briefing a very

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sort of of fishes man says

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when , comes

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up you add in the opposite direction

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you should just be smiling and plane

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your music remember who you are

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allowed allowed represent say

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support always support spot

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away from issues be discreet controversy

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at

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remember who you

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all were real menace

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sue ya know

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what you do that the

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world or what do you remember

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by talking about thomas jefferson that lincoln

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and the founding principles by the

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end

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they're swinging and singing about

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count basie and jelly roll what

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it means for live a full in their lives generally

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, reigns reigns

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, a weapon

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that often as soon as

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as of my suited to russia's can't blame

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them for you the truth

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is louis armstrong was the one who influenced

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the state department's as ambassador source

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my name's ricky riccardi director

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of research collections for the louis armstrong

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house museum nineteen fifty five

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louis embark now three month tour of your up

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there was literally riots in germany

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crowd screaming form in paris

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and there was such paris buzz that

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columbia records records as album called

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ambassador sat the new york

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times at the end and eighteen fifty five

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rope america's greatest weapon

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is a blue note in a minor key

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and right now it's most effective ambassador

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is louis armstrong that really got the

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state department involved adam clayton powell

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really drove the show with make it happen

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like scientists if the emphasis is

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as send send these

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are as over where they can

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reach the masses of the people of faith in africa

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task , force

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fifty seven the things partner i'm getting

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ready to send him to russia but

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that's when armstrong put his career in the

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line to speak out against racial injustice

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in little rock little little

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rock arkansas and the first phase of

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the trouble the white population are determined

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to prevent colored students from going to the school

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that and armstrong had not spoken

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out before and he had been getting some

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criticism from younger african american

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commentators throughout the nineteen fifties

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when you turn on the tv in his hotel room

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and he saw the tragedy that was unfolding

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the tragedy rock with the effort to integrate

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central high school he immediately

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called the hotel for destined said

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i need a dictator telegram to the white

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house

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national newspapers published a story

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sad mo cause i like a coward

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and he belittle the governor of arkansas

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where will fall bus if these people are allowed

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to spit are low black girl who can even go

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to school a person like me

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doesn't even have a country so

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, as far far

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our offense was an assembly over

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there at a seminar save

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my meds down south the

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brubeck had south the clipping

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of that in their little paper file

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and that was one more piece

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of inspiration that they used in

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creating the character of pops for the real ambassadors

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i'm busy lives as

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south it

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, ever since i was assessed by

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trump meant to take the of my son's

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have a and the all stars it was

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ingrained day and he often hear why

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positions and make it when they would towards

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the south he could not play without bad

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in new orleans his home state of louisiana

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are going to to the

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government don't represent some

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represent and nineteen

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forty nine being crowned the king of the mardi

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gras the that be evidence give a free

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concert this was carried her my

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savior jesus you down

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whoa

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yeah there's one of our recordings beautiful

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number all black and blue

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a after

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monstrance spaghetti [unk] little rock he

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kinda made it his policy to stop

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speaking out until march of

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nineteen sixty five during

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the march on some alabama

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bloody sunday armstrong was armstrong

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his way to go behind the iron curtain

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for the very first time reporters

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in denmark kind of got up the nerve to ask

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well ask well see you out there are marching you know where

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you're doing for the cause he said listen

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the best thing i can do is play my music

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and of i was gonna go out there in march first

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thing they would do me and i'm out without

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my lips i can't do what i do best for the cause

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the reporters that are you really think they would be

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louis armstrong and he said they

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would be seasons to see with black in

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march

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the a lot of our

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own mom

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every night

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during that tore he does it

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, do so blanking blanking

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he had originally recorded and nineteen twenty nine

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known as the first process

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on

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and the case

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of my mother he had

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movie right with the great bass player

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he's african american there

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was a whole big southern tour and

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then that the head of the school oh

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man he hoped we can't have black

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people playing with white people handsome

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plenty of twenty five passes

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that was love because i needed

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that work is less one

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of our allies concerts students

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were stamping on the floor and

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, were in the locker room room

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and it was such a roar of roar

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cause we're an hour late the

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presence of the school talking

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to the dominant sitting back

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and says the me we don't want another

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little rock you've on

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we keep your bass player and the fact

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so the second tonight

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so losing your microphone

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is from know have to move up

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front of the van and use my

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speaking my can i liked

9:55

it has to do solo

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pointed

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out that on and so on him when phrase

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associate with in his eyes as was

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such as your size

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, two thousand and is always say

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grudges i wouldn't wouldn't

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armstrong wouldn't armstrong the

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jazz musicians health

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schools back on track

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by the end a nice you fifty eight the brubeck

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had fifty eight they had a score but they had not

10:27

gotten to armstrong yes

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the glazier from their mutual manager was doing

10:31

everything in it's power to kind of keep the brew

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vex away from armstrong's glaciers

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main thing was how much money could make out of

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louis armstrong daves let's

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joe glazer know where where to

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out of musical we think it might be something

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that louis armstrong to play a pardon glazer

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was various do business bad he said

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dave you're going to be in chicago right after

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christmas thirteen fifty eight and

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lewis's planes the empire room so

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want you to school by and talk with him

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they go to chicago go to the

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front desk any as please call up

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to mr armstrong room and who answers

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the phone french italia air the

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road manager friend she says dave now

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i've got orders from the top there was

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can't see anybody he supposed to rest it's

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not gonna happen the day plants

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himself on the hallway floor outside

11:18

louis is room for about twenty minutes later

11:20

here comes room service with lewis's dinner

11:23

the door swings open and louis ghost

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decisive what are you doing sitting there all

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i want to talk to your best friends he said i could

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come in dave back

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to get a few minutes to make the elevator pitch

11:35

and so he pulls them the lyrics in the sheet

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music to a song called lonesome

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louis kind of recited like a poem the

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had a very very deep emotional

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effect on dave brubeck

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i'm sorry i was like i'm on board

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you told me one shop and i'm there

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they said it would really help me out a lot if

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you could make some reel to reel tapes

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and so

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them to me with some of the songs so i

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can start practicing to them hi

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, this is dave brubeck i

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just thought to joe glazer

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he saw me how difficult it will be

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for you to record any these things

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before going to europe but

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i'm hoping the soothing figure

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out the backgrounds with

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me singing the songs like

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yes me to do i'm ashamed

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as as way in which i sing

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but least you'll be able to hear the

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words you can galloway

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i'd like to introduce you

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to my wife she's really

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the one responsible for the show

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it was her idea over two years ago

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right a broadway show with

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you as the lead she's

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always considered using reddest

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ambassador so this this

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wife iowa we call or only

12:54

hello noise i sides

12:57

night on that show you ask

12:59

for it impressed me terrifically

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and saw the sincerity

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the hang out

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the

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that a get home on leave him

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medal of honor

13:44

right now for in the middle

13:46

and scramble of his hearing an audition

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tape for produces to listen to save

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told me about your reading the song lonesome

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in chicago and how moved he was

13:55

of we could even get justice much of

13:57

on the audition

13:58

well only

13:59

would you like to read lonesome

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so fast in here all

14:05

, life i've been lonely lonely

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, i'll

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go way back in my away

14:15

my i'll tell you all

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about know how

14:20

the winters mass and malveaux

14:27

valerie that's proven is

14:30

revered make that's natural enemy like

14:32

you said you could that's

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what i do is send

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disease of

14:40

my life i've been lonely

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i'm going way back in

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my prayers

14:48

i'll tell

14:51

you all about lonesome

14:53

how the windows

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less and less they

14:58

were so thrilled because it and on

15:00

louis and i think my father

15:03

saw it as a a way of getting

15:05

off the road and creating income which would free

15:07

more time for him to write the speak orchestral

15:10

works that he wanted to do

15:11

i think also because it represented something

15:14

that he wanted to achieve with

15:16

our mom iowa there

15:18

are singing lyrics of my mom hundred

15:21

as i look back in it he was thrilled for

15:23

this to be a musical event

15:25

that stone the spotlight on her abilities

15:27

as well

15:28

this whole career was really defined

15:31

about how smart you was the nineteen

15:33

fifties when you really started

15:35

to work with your husband

15:37

can it off a little bit about what it

15:39

was like being that active as a woman

15:43

hurley a juggling as i bet

15:45

i did a lot of the

15:46

apron strings and getting dinner on

15:48

the table

15:49

that was a given i was the bookkeeper

15:52

i wrote those salaries took

15:54

care of that taxes and all that

15:57

wrote program notes on did

15:59

the bookings for

15:59

whoa

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they call me central intelligence we

16:06

used to go on the road was like was jazz

16:08

circus family

16:10

they would make pitiful money like

16:12

a hundred dollars for a week at a club in pittsburgh

16:15

go , one of these the old hotels

16:17

very old hotel have

16:20

very large cause cause

16:24

parents we get to bed they had a truncated

16:26

and or a camping gear with you'd unfold

16:28

these i mean a little bed frame air

16:31

mattresses cooking utensils

16:33

books and toys we'll add everything

16:36

and that one footlocker and me as

16:38

the baby they just pull out the door and thrown some blankets

16:41

for that was er trip we just made do and

16:43

it was like pioneering until

16:45

they were school age when dave

16:47

was home from the road they

16:50

would spend a good part of

16:52

everyday show for in

16:54

their kids around to music lessons

16:56

dance lessons for tatty they'd

16:58

have to yellow legal pad

17:01

for the lyrics and story

17:03

ideas they park outside

17:05

and they'd have forty five minutes day

17:07

would come up with dog or all are just sort

17:09

of gibberish but it would sit

17:12

the beats of the music

17:14

and then i always said about starting to

17:17

make sense of it and turn it into a

17:19

song lyric this was their

17:21

passion project and over

17:23

passion five year period from

17:25

the moment the brew beck's presented

17:28

the script and the song loans and armstrong

17:30

in chicago and they saw how he responded

17:33

unfavorably they knew that

17:35

the next stop at to be broadway they

17:37

spend much of nineteen fifty nine and eighteen

17:39

sixteen speaking with the major

17:41

producers they were open to any

17:43

and all suggestions but every time

17:46

as seem like they were ready to

17:48

lock it in and get this producer i'm bored

17:50

and book the theater something would

17:52

come and away and that something was usually second

17:54

show for either

17:56

the oh glazer was my father's

17:58

agent slash

17:59

integer before

18:02

he had envisioned my father my father

18:04

much more intertwined with

18:06

louis armstrong career

18:08

louis armstrong first got involved with

18:10

joe glazer because there are two different

18:12

mafia controlled jazz clubs who

18:14

wanted louis on the same day and both

18:16

of them threatened to break his arms and bust

18:18

his mouth if he didn't play a one or

18:20

the other there's only one guy that knows

18:23

how to stay in ft these guys

18:25

and straighten this out is a guy named joe blazers

18:27

show glazer is in chicago

18:29

in the nineteen twenties running brothels

18:32

nightclub boxing matches he's hanging

18:34

out with al capone crew real

18:36

ten a shadowy figure he meets armstrong

18:39

the nineteen twenty six flash forward

18:41

to about nineteen thirty five armstrong

18:43

is at rock bottom he was threatened

18:46

at gunpoint one of his managers called

18:48

him the n word and left armstrong

18:50

stranded in europe without

18:53

his passport armstrong second

18:55

wife lil was suing him and armstrong's

18:57

chops is his lips were

18:59

all busted up to the point where he couldn't play the

19:01

trumpet when it comes back to chicago

19:04

he had no band the and know gigs to because

19:06

glazer worked out a deal you pay

19:08

me a weekly salary you pay

19:10

my personal expenses you keep the rest

19:13

and by the end of nineteen thirty five

19:15

armstrong have been featured in esquire magazine

19:18

vanity fair magazine is get a recording contract

19:20

with decades later made sure

19:22

that all armstrong had to do for the

19:24

rest of his life was play the

19:26

trumpet that is why man

19:28

as a huge and the been is that ugly this and

19:31

upload on and as weird as it

19:33

is it's been over twenty some years

19:36

and , when he signed a contract instead

19:40

when my parents came up with the idea

19:42

of the real investors we never

19:45

quite new like when things

19:47

were almost happening if joe

19:49

glazer was doing secret little thanks to make

19:51

sure that it couldn't

19:53

thankfully the thing that did

19:55

happen with this recording that

19:57

they did and the famous one perform

20:00

that the monterey jasmine

20:04

he would you deny ninety nine wj

20:06

zz fm and , listening

20:08

to the dave brubeck show show

20:11

go back and find out about

20:13

this show that is called a broadway

20:15

show without having reached broadway only

20:18

yes we are now going

20:20

to recorded as someone at columbia

20:23

records said the most expensive demo that

20:25

as recession

20:26

we got a real ambassador

20:28

take one rural and roll

20:31

a lot an active when

20:41

the yeah there's yeah

20:43

we represent an area and society

20:46

noted or is there a manner that

20:49

we have all been there

20:52

are some other people involved to i understand

20:55

carmen mcrae has the feminine

20:57

role and nombre [unk] hendricks

20:59

and ross lambert hendrix and

21:01

ross one of the cruise famous jazz

21:04

scott vocals they were like the great

21:06

course

21:11

the real ambassadors the columbia album

21:14

was recorded over about a week's time

21:16

in september nineteen sixty one armstrong

21:19

he knew that this was a challenge is

21:21

six years old at this point and he's learning

21:24

all these complex

21:26

dave brubeck of regional assemblies tongue

21:28

twisting iowa brubeck lyrics he

21:30

had absorbed the brubeck the audio

21:33

letters the he is ready after

21:35

one take brubeck said staggered saskatoon

21:37

pop and armstrong said don't worry about it

21:40

saps my brain it's if

21:42

if can get worn out are all these lyrics

22:11

louis and the fans are visiting

22:14

a non smoking and and africa

22:16

the , shoes lawyer

22:19

to be king of the might ago he

22:21

is to surf on the shoulders of the people

22:23

in march two the streets is proclaimed

22:25

king for the day day fictional

22:28

things nineteen sixty

22:30

armstrong goes armstrong his first state

22:32

department constant source he goes to

22:34

the congo the condos in the middle

22:36

of the civil war and leopold villa disappointing

22:38

for the call twenty four hour truce because

22:40

armstrong is coming carry him

22:43

coming on a throne basically declared a holiday

22:45

and is like the wireless thing that everything

22:47

the brubeck wrote everything their scripts had

22:49

some true when the album

22:52

comes out the real basses

22:54

the back cover photo is louis

22:56

in the congo in nineteen sixty been

22:58

carrying on carrying throne

23:06

a lot ,

23:08

as you really have much every

23:11

wish yoga ma'am our dog

23:13

and promo swinging bands weird all

23:15

the leaders from moving last

23:22

my habits

23:26

they with having dinner with ella fitzgerald

23:29

he said bread and i ll how you

23:31

doin she said why i'm

23:33

doing okay but you know dave my

23:35

one bad habits phone

23:38

it's so he come back to my mom you know ellis

23:41

said that and omaha wrote the

23:43

lyrics you know my one bad habit

23:45

is falling

23:46

why there's

23:49

a have this is falling

23:51

in love em

23:53

, laying rise again

23:57

under reporting for game at of that phone

23:59

harold wilson is a pro composer

24:02

even though it was just an accidental thing fell

24:05

out of her mouth dinner

24:06

ah

24:18

david i only did now you the soundtrack

24:20

recording the has another record

24:23

by dave brubeck

24:24

they viewed it as getting columbia to

24:26

pay to make a demonstration recording broadway

24:29

is the dream

24:31

coming up is a blues states

24:34

the real purpose of the show you

24:36

begin to sing they say i look like

24:43

my

24:48

god created man and his image and like

25:03

image of concrete know

25:06

she says he

25:08

rose male and female they say

25:10

i look like god

25:12

the rubik's wrote thinking that

25:14

armstrong with the usual

25:17

jocularity was going to just take one look at the

25:19

lyrics and deliver with

25:21

a little wink at opens up

25:23

a man has made in the image of god you

25:26

know your [unk] dao perchance the

25:28

zebra be you know of or black people

25:30

white people years but it's got the zebra ha ha

25:34

you , louis would kinda just you know deliver

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it with a little chuckle chuckle

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louis shows up in the studio oh

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yeah and

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he turned that studio into and

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true

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and

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as long as

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we needed to call a break after the sake because

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everybody was just emotionally

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done rude

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when the record finally came out and sixty two

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i think and kind of think without a trace at

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the times there wasn't too much

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of a description in the liner notes the

26:35

of one songs about the state department here they

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are thing and about cultural exchange the

26:40

next song is louis armstrong and carmen mcgregor

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thing in a beautiful love song was

26:45

what was the common thread holding the songs together

26:47

when the record came out

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it received almost no radio

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airplay but roubaix attorney

26:54

leaked to jazz critic ralph

26:56

gleason for reel to reel with

26:58

a few of the songs from the recording session

27:01

reason was bowled over the brubeck

27:03

ralph j gleason and jimmy lines in

27:05

the monterey jazz festival they sh kind

27:07

of scheme up with this way

27:10

of staging of the real ambassadors

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without quite running abides your blazer

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horseman going through found out about it he he

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was not happy but by that point lewis had

27:19

already agreed to do it

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the bodies command man

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oh my gosh months of a new

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sandstone says appears this is

27:29

the reason the scope of this i

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, listed this in ages i

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had written note saying saying and

27:36

less than jump to them said

27:38

nodes my own things that led

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the music he says lambert

27:43

henry's and eros

27:46

and i've checked out and sense and bizarre

27:48

for the monterey performance

27:51

lambert hendrix and ross transformed

27:53

into lambert hendrix and bizarre

27:55

my name is your launched as i am originally

27:58

from santa

27:59

they had the great good fortune

28:02

of singing in the jazz

28:04

is a killer written by dave and

28:06

i love peru back at the monterey jazz

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festivals nineteen sixty

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two

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they have one day to rehearse

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here in san francisco

28:15

is playing piano and this down certainly

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sitting there with a white handkerchief

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in his hand and is trump

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isn't his isn't solicited was sitting next to

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him and lose some lose some

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lucille and said

28:28

the mom no

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i should in australia when

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other states

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the in and met louis armstrong

28:36

i murmur estonia

28:39

the intensity of this rehearsal

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session they performed it in

28:43

the recording studio but this was going

28:45

to be live in france six thousand people

28:50

the me arrived in monterrey that

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is so beautiful the ocean

28:55

that being said

28:57

what it is

28:59

literally chimney in the evening

29:01

the musicians and and stuff

29:03

and a true and node would hang out we i

29:05

states and in the center this

29:08

a fire pit i know i was

29:10

happening was happening paying his salary now

29:12

saying and cracking jokes and

29:14

dc plus down on me mentally insane

29:17

said he was going to run for president

29:19

and it's because the black house

29:21

and

29:23

he didn't say anything times masking

29:27

a lot of pain they

29:29

they did issue it is amazing it

29:32

is naive and , air

29:35

sister glorious nine nine

29:37

got so many things into says

29:39

has just behind

29:42

cameo

29:42

and then lives

29:44

at the people that played

29:46

music

29:49

let this innovative

29:52

really , this not give a little bit

29:54

of the

29:57

will ambassadors is not the news is a

29:59

drama

29:59

the usual said sets

30:02

and costumes halftime or

30:04

fantastic that any of us could

30:06

ever see on stage because they

30:08

exist only humor hello

30:10

humor

30:14

oh a bird from

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an airplane window

30:19

they're

30:19

african village church

30:22

of the palo alto brubeck stood there

30:24

the audience left the stage

30:26

will go block and she would be illuminated

30:29

and with a single pin spot

30:32

she looked almost like the delphic oracle

30:35

in a dark blue sheath dress

30:38

a beautiful gold

30:41

and white saw in

30:43

her hair was up on top of her head she

30:45

, almost six feet tall as

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his intentions

30:50

the crashed planes

30:52

the didn't seem real complete

30:54

peace like to play let this

30:56

is a story line the

30:58

louis stance in things about

31:01

the old know about it

31:04

the movie on was paralyzed

31:06

with emotion

31:07

the that say day read this

31:10

that the real ambassadors the

31:12

news is this country music

31:15

, like overcome since eighty racial

31:18

barriers the political

31:21

messages energy

31:33

the a be back to history the monterey jazz

31:35

festival joyful ,

31:38

madness them this overzealous thing

31:41

there's camera right there was recording

31:44

equipment and job laser did not

31:46

give the green light to have it recorded

31:49

for you know if you're going to criticize your blazers

31:51

start there

31:52

initially there was thought wow this

31:54

thing could become a touring show

31:57

laser was like well

31:59

lewis is actually

31:59

the already booked all the way through nineteen

32:02

sixty four

32:04

though we then

32:05

a man of this sensational

32:08

performance and response all

32:11

the different musicians were back on their to

32:13

our schedules within a year

32:15

it started to become

32:17

a distant memory

32:19

they all and day later in the sixties

32:21

they wrote a number of large scale musical

32:23

works including oratorios and a

32:26

mass for pope john paul the second

32:28

their creative force and energy

32:30

continued unabated one

32:40

of the great songs and it shows somersault

32:43

leroy said the brubeck

32:45

have written an opera for me

32:48

love to

32:50

, me that

32:53

rough summer days cause

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as just too much cause say

33:03

and

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why

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the real besser is is trying

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to get a message through

33:13

art about what is truth is

33:16

cultural truth

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to me is

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like asomugha days

33:30

memories and

33:32

my parents grave markers the

33:34

lyrics are summers are brave than

33:36

the back of my

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parents you know right off into eternity

33:41

is parties

33:44

mas

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movies

33:51

right nancy try to

33:59

the game or

34:02

as what you they miss they

34:05

miss say miles

34:07

slow

34:29

the real ambassadors was produced by the kitchen

34:31

sisters nicky silver and

34:34

, how in collaboration attacks

34:37

and spanner mixed by jim

34:39

mickey

34:40

thanks to keep had checked christened

34:42

dan brubeck the riccardi

34:45

the amount of on lisa cohen

34:47

and wynton marsalis for

34:50

use of the rich archival audio

34:52

in the story we think the louis armstrong

34:54

educational foundation

34:55

he can find out more about this

34:57

amazing collection at louis

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work us are hurtful actions

35:03

louis armstrong columbia

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the know can family foundation access

35:16

oral history project interview by

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eugenia supplements and the

35:21

library of congress

35:28

the robert cylinder

35:29

family foundation khalida a deal

35:31

than foundation says he tompkins

35:34

bill fund in addition your contributions

35:36

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