The Jazz Ambassadors
- Released on
- Runtime
- 60 mins
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 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
- Leslie Odom Jr.
- Quincy Jones
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Louis Armstrong
- Darius Brubeck
- Bill Crow
- Duke Ellington
- Charlie Persip
Director
- Hugo Berkeley
Producers
- Mick Csáky
