The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors..., Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation? more

Directing:
  • Hugo Berkeley

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Release Date: 2018-05-04
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  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 60

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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillesp...
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom J...
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Self
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellingto...
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstro...
Self (archive footage)
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