Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat review superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA
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This extraordinarily detailed and fascinating film skips between timelines and continents, weaving together American jazz and the geopolitical machinations of the 1950s and 60s.
The film provides an eye-opening exploration of the politics of jazz, covering the CIA's use of unwitting jazz musicians as distractions for political meddling.
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