The Jazz Ambassadors
7.6
“The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War”
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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Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Known for
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Exorcist: Believer
Quincy Jones
Self
Also in
Jazz Icons - Quincy Jones Live in '60
Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Also in
The Hole
Voyage to Next
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Hello, Dolly!
Paris Blues
Darius Brubeck
Self
Bill Crow
Self
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Belle of the Nineties
Check and Double Check
Charlie Persip
Self
Hugo Berkeley Director · Dewald Aukema Cinematographer Andre Lascaris Cinematographer
United States release May 4, 2018 · Produced in United States · Production Antelope, Antelope Films
Production
Normal Life Pictures
Production
Antelope
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Antelope Films
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 4, 2018
TV · PBS
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