Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2022-10-27
  • User Rating: 6.9/10 from 20 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 44min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Imagine Documentaries
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Sacha Jenkins
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Summary

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.

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  • Louis Armstrong

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Nas

    as Self

  • Wynton Marsalis

    as Self

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Orson Welles

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Archie Shepp

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Count Basie

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Lucille Armstrong

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Dan Morganstern

    as Self

  • Steve Allen

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Edward R. Marrow

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Danny Baker

    as Self- Voice

  • George Jones

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Mike Douglas

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jelly Roll Morton

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • James Baldwin

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jimi Hendrix

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Dick Cavett

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tommy Rockwell

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ray Charles

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Sam Cooke

    as Self (archive footage)

  • James Brown

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John Lennon

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Paul McCartney

    as Self (archive footage)

  • George Harrison

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ringo Starr

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Leonard Bernstein

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Al Capone

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ed Sullivan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    as Self (archive footage)

  • James Stewart

    as Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)

  • Bing Crosby

    as Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage)

  • Barbra Streisand

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Miles Davis

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Slim Thompson

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)

  • Ossie Davis

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John F. Kennedy

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Walter Cronkite

    as Self (voice) (archive sound)
Directing Sacha Jenkins Director
Production Justin Wilkes Producer
Production Julie Anderson Producer
Editing Alma Herrera Pazmino Editor
Production David Blackman Executive Producer
Production Ron Howard Executive Producer
Production Sacha Jenkins Producer
Production Sara Bernstein Producer
Production Brian Grazer Executive Producer
Production Michele Anthony Executive Producer
Editing Jason Pollard Editor
Sound Terence Blanchard Music
Camera Ed Lachman Director of Photography

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