The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

Name: The Jazz Ambassadors
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 1 hr
Rating: 70
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Darius Brubeck

Movie"The untold story of Americas coolest weapon in the Cold War"

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NR 1 hrMay 4th, 2018Documentary

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 mixedrace band members faced a painful dilemma how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation

StarringLeslie Odom Jr.Quincy JonesDizzy Gillespie

DirectorHugo Berkeley

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