The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors - Trailer
Preview: 05/04/2018 | 3m
Discover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided in a music story of diplomacy
The Jazz Ambassadors - Trailer
Preview: 05/04/2018 | 3m
The Jazz Ambassadors
Duke Ellington on "American music".
Clip: 05/04/2018 | 1m 27s
Duke Ellington on the Plight of African Americans and “the American music”.
Duke Ellington on "American music".
Clip: 05/04/2018 | 1m 27s
The Jazz Ambassadors
Louis Armstrong: America’s Cultural Ambassador
Clip: 05/04/2018 | 2m 30s
The Voice of America radio show gave American jazz a worldwide stage.
Louis Armstrong: America’s Cultural Ambassador
Clip: 05/04/2018 | 2m 30s
The Jazz Ambassadors
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Teams Up with Dizzy Gillespie
Clip: 03/27/2018 | 2m 15s
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. teams up with Dizzy Gillespie.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Teams Up with Dizzy Gillespie
Clip: 03/27/2018 | 2m 15s

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The Cold War and civil rights collide in this story of music, diplomacy and race.

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 racially diverse band members faced a painful dilemma: How could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?

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