I'm looking for and article entitled "Jazz Ambassador" about the
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.  The article was written by Norman
Provizer in a newspaper from Denver, Colorado on March 24, 1999.

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`JAZZ AMBASSADOR' SAXMAN BLANDING RETURNS FROM ISRAEL TO PLAY OUT HIS
DREAM WITH THE GREATS.

(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/24/1999; Provizer, Norman 

Byline: Norman Provizer Denver Rocky Mountain News Jazz Critic 

?When the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra led by trumpeter Wynton
Marsalis rolls into Boettcher Concert Hall on Friday, Walter Blanding
Jr. will be sitting in the saxophone section, adjusting to life back
in the U.S.A. after a four-year stay in Israel.

The 27-year-old saxophonist was born in Cleveland, and grew up in New
York City. So, why Israel? During a telephone conversation just two
weeks after his return to the States, Blanding explained, ``My wife is
Israeli and we thought we would give living there a chance.''

In Israel the saxophonist helped create cultural and educational
programs that exposed students to the jazz tradition. He was, to
borrow a phrase from Newsweek magazine, the ``jazz ambassador... ?

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