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Film · 2018
The Jazz Ambassadors
1hDirected by Hugo Berkeley
- Documentary
The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War
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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Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.Narrator
Quincy JonesSelf
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)- Darius BrubeckSelf
- Bill CrowSelf
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)- Charlie PersipSelf
Details
- Director
- Hugo Berkeley
- Cinematography
- Dewald Aukema, Andre Lascaris
- Editor
- Nse Asuquo
- Producer
- Mick Csáky
- Release
- May 4, 2018
- Runtime
- 1h
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Normal Life Pictures, Antelope
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