The Jazz Ambassadors
The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War
2018 | 60m | English
Popularity: 1.0 (history)
| Director: | Hugo Berkeley |
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| 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? | |
| Release Date: | May 04, 2018 |
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| Director: | Hugo Berkeley |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | cold war, jazz singer or musician, civil rights, racial segregation, jim crow laws, race relations |
| Production Companies | Antelope, Normal Life Pictures |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 04, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Leslie Odom Jr. | Narrator |
| Quincy Jones | Self |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Self (archive footage) |
| Louis Armstrong | Self (archive footage) |
| Darius Brubeck | Self |
| Bill Crow | Self |
| Duke Ellington | Self (archive footage) |
| Charlie Persip | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Michael J. McEvoy | Music |
| Dewald Aukema | Director of Photography |
| Nse Asuquo | Editor |
| Andre Lascaris | Director of Photography |
| Hugo Berkeley | Director |
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| Mick Csáky | Producer |
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