The Jazz Ambassadors
2018 · 60 min
Documentary
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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?
Crew
- Director Hugo Berkeley
- Director of Photography Andre Lascaris
- Director of Photography Dewald Aukema
Cast
Crew
- Director — Hugo Berkeley
- Director of Photography — Andre Lascaris
- Director of Photography — Dewald Aukema
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