The Jazz Ambassadors

2018, documentary

60 minutes

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...

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Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.

Narrator

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Bill Crow

Self

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Camera

Directing

Hugo Berkeley

Hugo Berkeley

Director

Editing

Nse Asuquo

Editor

Production

Mick Csáky

Producer

Sound

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