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The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS | Trailer | PBS
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...
8 cast members
Leslie Odom Jr.
Quincy Jones
Dizzy Gillespie
Louis Armstrong
Darius Brubeck
Bill Crow
Duke Ellington
Charlie Persip