The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

Name: The Jazz Ambassadors
Director: Hugo Berkeley
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-05-04
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Darius Brubeck

20181h 0mDocumentary

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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Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.Narrator
Quincy JonesSelf
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
DDarius BrubeckSelf
BBill CrowSelf
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
CCharlie PersipSelf

Crew

Director: Hugo Berkeley
Producers: Mick Csáky
Cinematography: Andre Lascaris Dewald Aukema
Editing: Nse Asuquo

Details

Released: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Studio: Normal Life Pictures, Antelope
IMDb: tt7858992