Film
The Jazz Ambassadors 2018
60 min TMDB 7.0 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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Cast
- Leslie Odom Jr. as Narrator
- Quincy Jones as Self
- Dizzy Gillespie as Self (archive footage)
- Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)
- Darius Brubeck as Self
- Bill Crow as Self
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