The Jazz Ambassadors Movie Trailer

Overview:

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?

Release date:

2018-05-04

Genre:

Documentary

Language:

English

Cast:

Bill Crow
Charli Persip
Darius Brubeck
Leslie Odom Jr.
Quincy Jones

Trailer: