The Jazz Ambassadors (movie)

The Jazz Ambassadors (movie)

  • User score: 7
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Hugo Berkeley
  • Production companies: Normal Life Pictures, Antelope
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 5/4/2018
  • Run time: 60 min.

Movie description

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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Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.

Role(s): Narrator

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Role(s): Self

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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Role(s): Self (archive footage)

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Role(s): Self (archive footage)

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Darius Brubeck

Darius Brubeck

Role(s): Self

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