The Jazz Ambassadors

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The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

Directed by Hugo Berkeley

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

Documentary · 1h 00m

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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Cast

Leslie Odom Jr. Narrator Quincy Jones Self Dizzy Gillespie Self (archive footage) Louis Armstrong Self (archive footage)
D
Darius Brubeck Self
B
Bill Crow Self Duke Ellington Self (archive footage)
C
Charlie Persip Self

Crew

Director
Hugo Berkeley
Director of Photography
Dewald Aukema, Andre Lascaris
Editor
Nse Asuquo
Producer
Mick Csáky

Details

Release date
2018-05-04
Runtime
1h 00m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Normal Life Pictures, Antelope