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The Jazz Ambassadors

2018
Directed byHugo Berkeley
1h 0m

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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Leslie Odom Jr.NarratorQuincy JonesSelf
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Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Darius BrubeckSelf
Bill CrowSelf
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
Charlie PersipSelf
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Documentary
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.0

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