EXHIBITIONS
Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World
On view February 19 – April 12, 2009
Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World tells the story of the jazz
musicians who traveled the world as artistic ambassadors of the United States from
the depths of the Cold War in mid-1950s through the 1970s. Organized by Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C., Jam Session charts the tours of stellar jazz musicians through Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, as they carried the message
of America’s great indigenous art form to everyday citizens as well as world leaders.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center installation of this show brings the story to the present through a
special video slide-show of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and The Rhythm Road:American Music Abroad ensembles—great American bands who were on the road in
2007–2008, continuing to exchange the good news of jazz and other forms of American
music with musicians and fans across the globe.
Location and Hours: Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World is
located in the Peter Jay Sharp Arcade in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln
Center, Broadway at 60th Street in New York City. Admission is free and the Hall is open
to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m and
Monday from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Jam Session is organized and circulated by
Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.
Art for Cultural Diplomacy
Jazz at Lincoln Center gratefully acknowledges its curatorial group: Robert G. O’Meally, director and co-curator; C. Daniel Dawson, co-curator; Diedra Harris-Kelley, associate curator; and Emily Lordi, production assistant. Jazz at Lincoln Center also thanks the exhibitions advisory group. Thanks also go to JR Sanders, Linda Florio, Frank Stewart, Miles Davis, Anderson Zaca, David Berger, Phoebe Jacobs, The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, CBS News, SFM Entertainment, David Ostwald, Ricky Riccardi and Krin Gabbard. Many thanks to Meridian International Center’s Curtis Sandberg, Terry Harvey, Mariano Oreamuno and Erica Buentello.
Previous Exhibitions:
Looking at the Music: The Jazz Photography of Chuck Stewart
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