The Jazz Ambassadors
Documentary
7.0
Release Date
May 4, 2018
Duration
60 min
Status
Released
Language
en
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?
Casts
Narrator
Leslie Odom Jr.
Self
Quincy Jones
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self
Darius Brubeck
Self
Bill Crow
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self
Charlie Persip
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