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The Jazz Ambassadors
Documentary · 2018

The Jazz Ambassadors

7.0 8 cast 2018

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?

Cast 8

Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Self
LA
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
CP
Charlie Persip
Self
BC
Bill Crow
Self

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