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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues [Available Oct. 28 on Apple TV+.] Sacha Jenkins' engaging, entertaining, enlightening, informative, inspiring, 104-minute documentary that chronicles the career of legendary, world-renowned, talented, founding father of jazz Louis ‘Satchmo' Armstrong through archival photographs and film footage, performance snippets, home recordings, movie clips, personal conversations, letter excerpts, and commentary by wife Lucille Armstrong, broadcasters (such as Steve Allen, Chuck Cecil, and Fred Robbins), journalist and TV host Edward R. Murrow, news reporters Walter Cronkite and Larry Lubenow, TV entertainment host Ed Sullivan, actors (such as Orson Welles, Ossie Davis, and Fred Ware), bandleader Count Basie, musicians (such as Archie Shepp, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Jelly Roll Morton, George James, Enrico Tomaso, Danny Barker, Barney Bigard, Humphrey Lyttelton, Don Cheatham, Lilian Hardin, Arthur Briggs, Artie Shaw, Leonard Feather, Ray Nance, Trummy Young, Charlie Holmes, Jack Teagarden, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett, and James Young), jazz historians Dan Morgenstern and Ricky Riccardi, talk show hosts (such as Dick Cavett, David Frost, and Mike Douglas), singer Buck Johnson, music producer Tommy Rockwell, director Manuela Jones, music critic Stanley Crouch, music teacher Peter Davis, former president John F. Kennedy, conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, manager Johnny Collins, actor and friend Slim Thompson, photographer Jack Bradley, friend Al Cobette, writers Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin, former governor Orval Faubus, TV personality Ernie Anderson, and former New Orleans mayor De Lesseps Morrison.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  R View Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues on the Internet Movie Database