The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War 2018-05-04 United States of America 60 Min. PG-13
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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?

Cast

Leslie Odom Jr. is Narrator
Narrator
Quincy Jones is Self
Self
Dizzy Gillespie is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Darius Brubeck is Self
Self
Bill Crow is Self
Self
Duke Ellington is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Persip is Self
Self

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