The Jazz Ambassadors(2018)
05/04/2018 (US)Documentary1h 0m
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"The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War"
Overview
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?
Hugo Berkeley
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THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer | PBS
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