The Jazz Ambassadors
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?
Cast
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Leslie Odom Jr.
Played Narrator
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Quincy Jones
Played Self
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Louis Armstrong
Played Self (archive footag…
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Darius Brubeck
Played Self
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Bill Crow
Played Self
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Duke Ellington
Played Self (archive footag…
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Charlie Persip
Played Self
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