The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors

7.0

1 hr 0 min

2018-05-04

2

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?

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.

Narrator

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Self

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck

Darius Brubeck

Self

Bill Crow

Bill Crow

Self

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