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The Jazz Ambassadors

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

04 May 2018
  • United States of America
60 mins
7
2 votes
  • Documentary
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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?
  • 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
  • Duke Ellington

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Charlie Persip

    as Self

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