Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

6.6

104 minutes

10/27/2022

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.

Cast List

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)