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Jazz Ambassadors, The (2018)
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Jazz Ambassadors, The (2018)

Genre
Documentary
Release Date
May 4, 2018
Studio
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/show/jazz-ambassadors/
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
May 4, 2018
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
060 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/show/jazz-ambassadors/
Director
Hugo Berkeley
Producer
Mick Csaky
Starring
  • Leslie Odom Jr. as Himself
  • Quincy Jones as Himself
  • Charli Persip
  • Darius Brubeck
  • Bill Crow

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?