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The Jazz Ambassadors

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

May. 04,2018
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7.5
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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?

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Evengyny
2018/05/04

Thanks for the memories!

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VividSimon
2018/05/05

Simply Perfect

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Odelecol
2018/05/06

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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Chirphymium
2018/05/07

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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