Mission to Mir
1997
The Jazz Ambassadors
4/5/2018 1h 0m 7.0/10
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?
Director
Hugo Berkeley
Top Billed Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Self
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
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Darius Brubeck
Self
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Bill Crow
Self
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