The Jazz Ambassadors
First aired on May 4, 2018
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Genres: Documentary
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?
Featured Cast: click image to view more
Leslie Odom Jr. | Narrator
Quincy Jones | Self
Dizzy Gillespie | Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong | Self (archive footage)
Darius Brubeck | Self
Bill Crow | Self
Featured Crew
Hugo Berkeley | Director
Michael J. McEvoy | Music
Nse Asuquo | Editor
Mick Csáky | Producer
Andre Lascaris | Director of Photography
Dewald Aukema | Director of Photography
