The Jazz Ambassadors
Documentary
★ 7.0/1020181h 0m
Director: Hugo Berkeley
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?
Runtime
1h 0m
Language
English
Released
May 4, 2018
Runtime
1h 0m
Language
English
Released
May 4, 2018
Cast
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