Don't know much about jazz but since you mention the saxophone, were you aware that Castro banned the use of the sax because--ready for this?--it was invented by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian, and the Belgians were still running the Belgian Congo at the time of the Cuban Revolution!
Jazz wasn't the only Western music heard behind the Iron Curtain. Blood Sweat and Tears became the first rock band to play behind the Iron Curtain when they toured Yugoslavia, Romania, and Poland in 1970. A documentary on that tour showed it opened the bands eyes to what was really happening in the communist East. They saw that life there wasn't like how it was portrayed in the US press.
Don't know much about jazz but since you mention the saxophone, were you aware that Castro banned the use of the sax because--ready for this?--it was invented by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian, and the Belgians were still running the Belgian Congo at the time of the Cuban Revolution!
You can't make this stuff up.
But modern commies "got no kick against modern jazz."
Unless they try to play it too darn fast.
Or it "sounds just like a symphony."
But Dr. Berry might have liked this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNbAtTMZXc&ab_channel=PrivateReserve
Paul Whiteman Really Underrated.
Trump has Dainted and Stained the Kennedy Center!
Would Diana Krall, a Canadian, hesitate?
Jazz stopped being REALLY popular when t stopped being music you could Dance to.
Jazz wasn't the only Western music heard behind the Iron Curtain. Blood Sweat and Tears became the first rock band to play behind the Iron Curtain when they toured Yugoslavia, Romania, and Poland in 1970. A documentary on that tour showed it opened the bands eyes to what was really happening in the communist East. They saw that life there wasn't like how it was portrayed in the US press.