The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War
90 min
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?
- Release date
- May 4, 2018
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Darius Brubeck as Self
- Bill Crow as Self
- Quincy Jones as Self
- Anson Mole as Young Darius Brubeck
- Leslie Odom Jr. as Narrator
- Charli Persip as Self
Crew
- Hugo Berkeley · Director
- Mick Csáky · Producer
- Michael J. McEvoy · Composer
- Dewald Aukema · Cinematographer
- Andre Lascaris · Cinematographer
- Nse Asuquo · Editor