Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World December 11, 2009

This photo exhibit features over 100 images of jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman as they traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The photographs, which span the mid-1950s through the 1970s, highlight various diplomacy trips to Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America.