The Jazz Ambassadors
EFG London Jazz Festival Release Date:
Sunday 25th November 2018
Age rating / classification to be confirmed
1 hour 30 minutes approx.
Released
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Starring:
Darius Brubeck, Bill Crow, Quincy Jones, Leslie Odom Jr. and Charli Persip
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Synopsis
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.