The Jazz Ambassadors
Release Date: 2018-05-04
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?
Rating: 7 / 10
Cast
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
Crew
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Nse Asuquo - Editor
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Hugo Berkeley - Director
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Michael J. McEvoy - Music
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Mick Csáky - Producer
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Dewald Aukema - Director of Photography
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