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The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

70% User Rating
1h 0min
Documentary

"The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War"

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.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Self

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

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Darius Brubeck

Self

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Bill Crow

Self

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

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Charlie Persip

Self

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THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer  | PBS

THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer | PBS

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