The Jazz AmbassadorsMovie
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?
About The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors is a 2018 documentary movie directed by Hugo Berkeley.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 0m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
