The Jazz Ambassadors

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TitleThe Jazz Ambassadors
User score

7

Release dateMay 4, 2018
GenreDocumentary
DirectorHugo Berkeley
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesNormal Life Pictures, Antelope
Run time60 min.

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?

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THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer | PBS

Apr 2, 2018

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