The Jazz Ambassadors(2018)

Name: The Jazz Ambassadors
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-05-04
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 3.5

May 4, 20181h 0m

Documentary

3.5from 2 users

Overview

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?

“The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War”

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Directed by Hugo Berkeley

Leslie Odom Jr.

Narrator

Quincy Jones

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Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

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Darius Brubeck

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Bill Crow

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Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

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Charlie Persip

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The Jazz Ambassadors(2018)

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