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The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
Directed by Hugo Berkeley
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?
Length 60 minutes
Actors
Duke Ellington | Quincy Jones | Louis Armstrong | Dizzy Gillespie | Leslie Odom Jr. | Darius Brubeck | Bill Crow | Charlie Persip