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Directors: Hugo Berkeley Actors:
Leslie Odom Jr. Quincy Jones Dizzy Gillespie Louis Armstrong Darius Brubeck Bill Crow Duke Ellington

The Jazz Ambassadors 2018

60 minutes

'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?

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