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Película Documental dirigida en 2018 por Hugo Berkeley, con Leslie Odom Jr. (Narrator), Quincy Jones (Self) y Dizzy Gillespie (Self (archive footage)).
Narrado por Leslie Odom, Jr., este cautivador documental narra el viaje de músicos legendarios como Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington (cuyo 125o cumpleaños es el 29 de abril de este año) y Benny Goodman mientras se embarcaban en una misión innovadora.
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?
In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Dave Brubeck travel the globe to perform as cultural ambassadors. Directors. Hugo Berkeley.
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4 de may. de 2018 · Hugo Berkeley. Director. 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 ...
In 1956, America announced a new Cold War weapon to combat the USSR; jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Brubeck, along with their racially-integrated band, would cross the globe to counter negative Soviet propaganda about racial inequality in America.
