Description
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Casts:
Patrice Lumumba
Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie
Abbey Lincoln
Max Roach
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
