The Jazz Ambassadors

2018 "The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War"
7.5| 1h0m| en| Documentary
Storyline

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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  • The Jazz Ambassadors Cast
Leslie Odom Jr. as Narrator
Quincy Jones as Self
Dizzy Gillespie as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage)