Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Q&A with director Sacha Jenkins and producers Julie Anderson, Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes, moderated by Boston Globe's Odie Henderson

2022. 104 m. Sacha Jenkins. AppleTV+. US. English. Rated R.

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Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues offers 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, directed by Sacha Jenkins, 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. The film shows how Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, and how he became a lightning rod figure in that turbulent era.

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"The film is a trove of Armstrong’s love of music and his labor. And because so many of those who lend their insights are now departed, it has the feel of a mausoleum worthy of a humble yet celebratory “Saints Go Marching In” second line."
Lisa Kennedy, The New York Times

"Jenkins is undaunted by the complexity of his subject, plunging ahead with swagger and not worrying if we have unanswered questions at the end."
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

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Q&A with director Sacha Jenkins and producers Julie Anderson, Sara Bernstein, & Justin Wilkes, moderated by Boston Globe's Odie Henderson

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Sacha Jenkins is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures. He is known for Fresh Dressed (2015), Word Is Bond (2018) and Burn Motherf**ker, Burn! (2017).

Julie Anderson is a documentary film maker and producer. She is known for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013), We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020) and God Is the Bigger Elvis - for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.