Kamasi Washington draws inspiration from former jazz icons
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The Journey to Jazz and Human Rights: Episode 4 – International Rights
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How Dizzy Gillespie broke racial barriers as a jazz ambassador in the 1960s
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Eddie Rosner: Europe’s own Louis Armstrong
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Kendrick Lamar: the Coltrane of hip-hop
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Tomasz Stańko: the Polish jazz pioneer
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Dave Brubeck and the ‘Jazz Ambassadors’ during the Cold War era
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The Journey to Jazz and Human Rights: Episode 3 – Women’s Rights
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Esperanza Spalding: a jazz legend in the making
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Melba Liston was a ‘trailblazer in jazz’
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Benny Goodman broke down racial barriers through jazz
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Mary Lou Williams: an inspiration to women in jazz
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Lil Hardin was more than just ‘Mrs. Armstrong’
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How Nina Simone used protest music to challenge racial discrimination
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The Journey to Jazz and Human Rights: Episode 2 – Economic Rights
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Cannonball Adderley popularized the merging of soul and jazz
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Bing Crosby and economic hardship during the Great Depression
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Paul Whiteman made ‘a lady out of jazz’
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Lead Belly and the Jim Crow Blues
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James Reese Europe, the Clef Club, and jazz circa the First World War
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the origins of the ‘first’ jazz recording
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How Louis Armstrong’s early work helped break down America’s racial barrier
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Jelly Roll Morton: an innovator of jazz
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