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The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

1h 0m | PG-13

⭐ 7 / 10

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

Studio: Normal Life Pictures

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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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

Darius Brubeck

as Self

Bill Crow

Bill Crow

as Self