The Jazz Ambassadors
7|2018|1h 0m| 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?
Genres: Documentary
Director: Hugo Berkeley
Votes: 2
Production Companies:
Normal Life Pictures
Antelope
Main Actors:
Leslie Odom Jr.
Acting
Quincy Jones
Sound
Dizzy Gillespie
Acting
Louis Armstrong
Acting
Darius Brubeck
Acting
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