The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

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

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2018-05-04
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Normal Life Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Hugo Berkeley
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Summary

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.

    as Narrator

  • Quincy Jones

    as Self

  • Dizzy Gillespie

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Louis Armstrong

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Darius Brubeck

    as Self

  • Bill Crow

    as Self

  • Duke Ellington

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Charlie Persip

    as Self
Directing Hugo Berkeley Director
Sound Michael J. McEvoy Music
Editing Nse Asuquo Editor
Production Mick Csáky Producer
Camera Andre Lascaris Director of Photography
Camera Dewald Aukema Director of Photography

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