The Jazz Ambassadors
The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War
Documentary
7.0
7.01h 0m
May 4, 2018
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?
Director
Hugo Berkeley
Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
D
Darius Brubeck
Self
B
Bill Crow
Self
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
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