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The Jazz Ambassadors 2018 Directed by Hugo Berkeley

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?

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Gnere Documentary
Production Companies Antelope , Normal Life Pictures
Release Date 4 May 2018
60 mins
Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. Narrator
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Self (archive footage)
Darius Brubeck
Darius Brubeck Self
Bill Crow
Bill Crow Self
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Self (archive footage)
Charlie Persip
Charlie Persip Self
Crew
Director
Hugo Berkeley
Hugo Berkeley
Producer
Mick Csáky
Mick Csáky
Cinematography
Andre Lascaris
Andre Lascaris
Dewald Aukema
Dewald Aukema
Editor
Nse Asuquo
Nse Asuquo
Music
Michael J. McEvoy
Michael J. McEvoy