The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

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?

Released

2018-05-04

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

60 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Hugo Berkeley

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 2 votes