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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
Directed by Sacha Jenkins
Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 104 minutes
Actors
Louis Armstrong | Nas | Wynton Marsalis | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Orson Welles | Archie Shepp | Count Basie | Lucille Armstrong | Dan Morganstern | Steve Allen | Edward R. Marrow | Danny Baker | George Jones | Mike Douglas | Jelly Roll Morton | James Baldwin | Jimi Hendrix | Dick Cavett | Tommy Rockwell | Ray Charles | Sam Cooke | James Brown | John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr | Leonard Bernstein | Al Capone | Ed Sullivan | Martin Luther King | James Stewart | Bing Crosby | Barbra Streisand | Miles Davis | Slim Thompson | Ossie Davis | Sammy Davis Jr. | John F. Kennedy | Walter Cronkite