Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Sacha Jenkins2022-10-27
6.7
104 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Louis Armstrong | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nas | Self | Unowned |
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Wynton Marsalis | Self | Unowned |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Orson Welles | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Archie Shepp | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Count Basie | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Lucille Armstrong | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Dan Morganstern | Self | Unowned |
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Steve Allen | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Edward R. Marrow | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Danny Baker | Self- Voice | Unowned |
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George Jones | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Mike Douglas | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jelly Roll Morton | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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James Baldwin | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jimi Hendrix | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dick Cavett | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Tommy Rockwell | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ray Charles | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sam Cooke | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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James Brown | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John Lennon | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Paul McCartney | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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George Harrison | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ringo Starr | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Leonard Bernstein | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Al Capone | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ed Sullivan | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Martin Luther King Jr. | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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James Stewart | Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bing Crosby | Self - C.K Dexter-Haven (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Barbra Streisand | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Miles Davis | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Slim Thompson | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |
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Ossie Davis | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sammy Davis Jr. | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Walter Cronkite | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Unowned |