Public Invited to Opening of Jam Sessions: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World

April 16, 2012

Pima Community College is pleased to host a month-long exhibit of photographs of some of the world’s greatest musicians as they traveled the globe playing that most American of art forms, jazz.

The Jam Session: America’s Jam Ambassadors Embrace the World exhibit, organized by Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C., features photos of musicians who, as part of a U.S. Department of State initiative, were international “ambassadors of jazz” from the 1950s to 1970s – everyone from Louis Armstrong and Count Basie to Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.

The exhibit kicks off Tuesday, April 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. with a reception in the Amethyst Room at Downtown featuring light refreshments and the PCC Jazz Ensemble.

The photos will be on display at the second-floor lobby of the Campus Center Building at Downtown Campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave., from April 17 to May 25. View them from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

The exhibit is sponsored by PCC, the Tucson Jazz Society and the Meridian International Center, a partner of the U.S. Department of State.