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The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors

Documentary
2018, US
1h 0m

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Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Darius Brubeck

Darius Brubeck

Bill Crow

Bill Crow

Charlie Persip

Charlie Persip

Hugo Berkeley

Hugo Berkeley

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The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War

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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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