The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
Documentary
Synopsis
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?
Credits
Director
Hugo Berkeley
Cast
Bill Crow as Self
Charlie Persip as Self
Darius Brubeck as Self
Dizzy Gillespie as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage)
Leslie Odom Jr. as Narrator
Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)
Quincy Jones as Self
Crew
Andre Lascaris (Director of Photography)
Dewald Aukema (Director of Photography)
Nse Asuquo (Editor)
Michael J. McEvoy (Music)
Mick Csáky (Producer)
Original Poster
The Jazz Ambassadors - Original Poster
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