
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
1h 0m | PG-13
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
Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.
as Narrator

Quincy Jones
as Self

Dizzy Gillespie
as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong
as Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck
as Self

Bill Crow
as Self