The Jazz Ambassadors

Name: The Jazz Ambassadors
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Darius Brubeck

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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?

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Cast & Crew

Director: Hugo BerkeleyProducer: Mick Csáky

Leslie Odom Jr.

as Narrator

Quincy Jones

as Self

Dizzy Gillespie

as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

Darius Brubeck

as Self

Bill Crow

as Self

Duke Ellington

as Self (archive footage)

Charlie Persip

as Self

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