The Jazz Ambassadors
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
04/05/2018
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Original Soundtrack
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Singular
Billie
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Cool
Sathima's Windsong
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Indian Rights for Indian Women
Spartamerika
Veronica
Mission to Mir
Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
Racist Trees
The Hole In The Ground
Il est minuit, Paris s'éveille
Tunnel to Freedom
Democracy Is ...
Information Violence
Milisuthando
Plano B
Still We Rise