The Jazz Ambassadors Poster

The Jazz Ambassadors

70.00% | May 4, 2018 | Documentary

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?

Featured Crew

Hugo Berkeley
Director
Michael J. McEvoy
Music
Nse Asuquo
Editor

Cast

Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)