The Jazz Embassadors - Full film

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By PBS - 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 to truthfully represent own's country knowing that the CIA is undermining by stealth the diplomatic process behind the scenes.

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