Geheimwaffe Jazz
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Le jazz : une arme secrète
director:
Hugo Berkeley
actor:
Leslie Odom Jr.
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Quincy Jones
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Louis Armstrong
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Darius Brubeck
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genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 1h
release date: 2018-05-04
IMDb: tt7858992
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?