The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
Release Date: 04 May 2018
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?
Runtime: 60 min
Vote Average: 7
Vote Count: 2
Production Companies : Normal Life Pictures, Antelope,
Production Countries: United States of America
Budget: $ 0
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Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Quincy Jones
Dizzy Gillespie
Louis Armstrong
Darius Brubeck
Bill Crow
Duke Ellington
Charlie Persip
