On Sunday, December 6, at 6:00 pm MSK, (10am ET; 7am PT) go to the U.S. Embassy's Cultural Attache in Moscow's Facebook page HERE for the Russian premiere of The Real Ambassadors, a virtual tribute concert to American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck on the 100th anniversary of his birth in partnership with The Louis Armstrong House Museum.

The concert will include six selections from The Real Ambassadors jazz musical, developed by Dave and Iola Brubeck in collaboration with Louis Armstrong and his band in the late 1950s and 1960s. The musical is a retrospective of Brubeck and his fellow jazz musicians’ experiences performing around the world with the U.S. State Department. The nation’s finest jazz musicians abroad volunteered as goodwill “Jazz Ambassadors” to symbolize America’s commitment to freedom and democracy.

The virtual concert’s band is led by two-time Grammy-nominated trumpeter Alphonso Horne. The concert is jointly presented by the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, the Forum for Cultural Engagement, and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.