Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:06:21 +0200https://english.radio.cz/satchmo-and-liberating-power-jazz-8588406© 2026 Radio Prague International Nothing better symbolizes the political thaw in 1960s Czechoslovakia than the boom in jazz, which many saw as embodying the very idea of individual expression and freedom from constraint. It is not hard to imagine the excitement when Louis Armstrong came to Prague in March 1965. Many people felt that Czechoslovakia had at last come in from the cold, and his concert at Prague’s Lucerna Ballroom was a cultural milestone. It ended with Satchmo thanking his audience, commenting that the Czech passion for jazz had come as quite a surprise to him. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/armstrong_luis.jpg?timestamp=1591436008 https://english.radio.cz/satchmo-and-liberating-power-jazz-8588406 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9