The Jazz Ambassadors Trailer

The Jazz Ambassadors Trailer (2018)

"The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War" 04 May 2018 Factual 60 mins

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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Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.

as Narrator

Dizzy Gillespie

as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Crow

as Self

Duke Ellington

as Self (archive footage)

Crew

Dewald Aukema

Dewald Aukema Director of Photography

Andre Lascaris

Andre Lascaris Director of Photography

Mick Csáky

Mick Csáky Producer

International Releases Dates

United States 04 May 2018

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