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The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

May. 04,2018
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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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2018/05/05

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

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2018/05/06

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Catherina
2018/05/07

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

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