The Jazz Ambassadors
"The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War"
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?
About The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018) is a documentary movie produced by Normal Life Pictures in United States of America. It was directed by Hugo Berkeley. On screen you will see Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Darius Brubeck. With a runtime of 1h 0m, the film averages 7.0/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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