(The Jazz Ambassadors)

Content: 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?

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

60 minutes

Year:

2018

Directors:

Hugo Berkeley

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Production companies:

Normal Life Pictures,

Antelope

Actors:

Narrator

Self

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self

Crews:

Editor

Director

Music

Producer

Director of Photography