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The Jazz Ambassadors

THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S COOLEST WEAPON IN THE COLD WAR
7/10 2018 4K 60 min
Documentary

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