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The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

May. 04,2018
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The Jazz Ambassadors

2018  / 1 hr 0 min

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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Director
Hugo Berkeley
Cast
Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones
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