The Jazz Ambassadors
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The Jazz Ambassadors

70% Match
2018
1h 0m
movie
Documentary

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?

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The Jazz Ambassadors

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Director / Creator: Hugo Berkeley
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Da
Darius Brubeck
Self
Bi
Bill Crow
Self
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Ch
Charlie Persip
Self

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