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Ambassador of Cool

Early in the spring of 1958, Dave Brubeck was driven past the final gate separating the Communist world from the West and dropped off on a street corner in East Berlin. Brubeck was already one of the best-known jazz musicians in the world, but he felt alone and conspicuous in the grim Cold War city...
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By Matt Schudel

 
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