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The Jazz Ambassadors

7.020181h MovieDocumentary

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,…

DirectorHugo Berkeley
ProducerMick Csáky

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Cast · Directed by Hugo Berkeley

LJLeslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
QJQuincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Self
DGDizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
LALouis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
DB
Darius Brubeck
Self
BC
Bill Crow
Self
DEDuke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
CP
Charlie Persip
Self

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