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Washington sent Louis Armstrong on tour while the CIA was working out how to get rid of the Congo’s first elected prime minister, and Johan Grimonprez cuts the archive to jazz to ask why. What comes out is not just old history but an indictment, because the ghosts of colonialism refuse to go away.
It’s 1960, and at the UN in New York, Nikita Khrushchev is accusing the great powers of practising colonialism under another name. Patrice Lumumba has just become the Congo’s first elected prime minister, and the State Department is sending two jazzmen, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, out on tour. They look like separate stories, until it becomes clear they are all the same one.
Sundance Film Festival
Jury Prize - Documentary Competition
2024
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Audience Award
2024
San Sebastian Film Festival
Official Selection
2024
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