The Jazz Ambassadors

Documentary

70%
The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors
Unrated
5/4/20181h 0m

TV Release (US)

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

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?

Director:

Hugo Berkeley

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Revenue:

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Key words:

  • cold war
  • jazz singer or musician
  • civil rights
  • racial segregation
  • jim crow laws
  • race relations

Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.

~ as ~

Narrator

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

~ as ~

Self

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

~ as ~

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

~ as ~

Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck

~ as ~

Self

Bill Crow

~ as ~

Self

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

~ as ~

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Persip

~ as ~

Self

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