The Jazz Ambassadors

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Hugo Berkeley
• Cast(s): Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 30min
• Music: Michael J. McEvoy
• Award(s): Peabody 2019 (Won)
  Best Original Composition 2019 (Nominated) Awards List
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• Story:
  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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