The Jazz Ambassadors

7.0 2018 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,…

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Hugo Berkeley

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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

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