First-Time Viewing
The Jazz Ambassadors
Release Date:May 4, 2018
Running Time:60 min
Genres:Documentary
Director
Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.Quincy JonesDizzy GillespieLouis ArmstrongDarius BrubeckBill CrowDuke EllingtonCharlie Persip
Top billed cast (via TMDB).
Synopsis
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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