The Jazz Ambassadors

Movie • 2018 • • 1:00 hours

Status

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Genres

Documentary

Details

http://www.pbs.org/show/jazz-ambassadors/

Original LanguageEN

Release date4 May 2018

StatusReleased

Movie duration60 min / 1:00 hours

Companies

Normal Life Pictures Antelope

Countries

United States of America

Where to Watch

Apple TV

Keywords

cold war jazz singer or musician civil rights racial segregation jim crow laws race relations

Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator

Quincy Jones
Self

Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck
Self

Bill Crow
Self

Crew

Hugo Berkeley
Director

Michael J. McEvoy
Music

Nse Asuquo
Editor

Mick Csáky
Producer

Andre Lascaris
Director of Photography

Dewald Aukema
Director of Photography

Videos

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?

The Jazz Ambassadors

Movie • 2018 • • 1:00 hours

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