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The Jazz Ambassadors

05/04/2018

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1hr 0min

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Documentary

The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Leslie Odom Jr.
  • Quincy Jones
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Darius Brubeck

    Director

  • Hugo Berkeley

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Normal Life Pictures
  • Antelope

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.

Narrator

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck

Self

Bill Crow

Self

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Persip

Self

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