Basic Info
Release: May 04, 2018
Runtime: 60 min
Rating: ⭐ 7.0/10 (2 votes)
Status: Released
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THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer | PBS (YouTube)
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
60 min
⭐ 7.0/10
2 votes
Overview
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?
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Darius Brubeck
Self
Bill Crow
Self
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Persip
Self
Crew
Hugo Berkeley
Director
Michael J. McEvoy
Music
Mick Csáky
Producer
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