Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Movie

Documentary

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.

Date: 10/27/2022

Rating: 6.9

Cast: 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 Jr., James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Slim Thompson, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., John F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite

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