Dave Brubeck, Radio broadcast by Voice Of America

Label: Voice of America Jazz
Year: 1960
Released on LP: Yes
Released on CD: No

Tracks

1.Gone With The Wind
2.Lonesome Road
3.Take The ”A” Train
4.Three To Get Ready
5.Take Five
6.Blue Rondo A La Turk

Notes

This was a concert broadcast on radio by "Voice Of America".

It was released on a 12" LP - Voice of America Jazz (USA) J-102. The title is unknown.


Dave Brubeck - piano
Paul Desmond - alto sax.
Gene Wright - bass
Joe Morello - drums


Voice Of America - Wikipedia

The Voice of America Jazz Hour was broadcast on Voice of America beginning on January 6, 1955, and through 2003; it was then folded into Voice of America Music Mix's program Jazz America.

It began broadcasting in 1955, hosted by Willis Conover over the initial objections of Congress.

The theme song of the program was Ellington's "Take the A Train". At its height, the Voice of America Jazz Hour was listened to by up to 30 million people, most of them overseas as a result of the the Smith–Mundt Act.

The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly referred to as the Smith–Mundt Act, specifies the terms in which the United States government can engage global audiences, also known as public diplomacy. The act was first introduced as the Bloom Bill in December 1945 in the 79th Congress and subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.

As jazz was frequently banned in the Soviet Union and countries sympathetic to its views, Voice of America was often the only way people in those countries could listen to jazz, and Willis Conover's politics-free broadcasts are widely credited for keeping interest in jazz active in Soviet satellite states.