The Jazz Ambassadors
(2018)
Documentary
60min
70%
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 painfu ...
Leslie Odom Jr.
Acting
Quincy Jones
Sound
Dizzy Gillespie
Acting
Narrator
Leslie Odom Jr.
Popularity : 7.656
Self
Quincy Jones
Popularity : 8.427
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
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Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
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Darius Brubeck
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Self
Bill Crow
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Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
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Self
Charlie Persip
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