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The Jazz Ambassadors

IMDb 7.0, 60 min, Documentary, United States of America

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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DirectorHugo Berkeley
GenreDocumentary
Runtime60 min
ReleasedFri, May 4, 2018
CountryUnited States of America
IMDBtt7858992

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