The Jazz Ambassadors – 2018

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 : Bill Crow|Charli Persip|Darius Brubeck|Dizzy Gillespie|Duke Ellington|Leslie Odom Jr.|Louis Armstrong|Quincy Jones
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 5/4/2018
Country : United States
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