The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors

May 04, 2018 | 60 min

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?

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Leslie Odom Jr.

Naomi Scott

Dizzy Gillespie

Naomi Scott

Louis Armstrong

Naomi Scott

Darius Brubeck

Naomi Scott

Bill Crow

Naomi Scott

Duke Ellington

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