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Benny Goodman in Moscow in 1962.Fred Kaplan writes:Half a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the State Department. Let the world experience what he called real Americana: send out jazz bands instead.