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The Jazz Ambassadors
2018, May 04
1h 0m
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?
Directed by
Hugo Berkeley
Leslie Odom Jr.
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Darius Brubeck
Self
Bill Crow
Self
Charlie Persip
Self
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