Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues is brilliantly steeped in these considerations — tracing them from the artist's rough childhood in New Orleans to his pop culture transcendence to his life as a ...

He’s done that with "Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues" (streaming Friday on Apple TV+), which is anchored by a treasure trove of previously unreleased conversations recorded by Armstrong.

A version of this story about “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” first appeared in the Guild & Critics Awards/Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Louis Armstrong was a titan ...

In “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” premiering today on Apple TV+, Jenkins documents the jazz trumpeter, vocal innovator and actor as a fire-starter for so much of what we hear now in ...

No one had sounded like that; no one had commanded like that. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” directed by Sacha Jenkins, is a captivating documentary that does justice to the monumental ...

“My only sin is in my skin.” That rhyme is among the lyrics in the 1929 Fats Waller song “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue,” an eloquent and haunting evocation of the experience of ...

Apple Original Films has released the trailer for “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” a revealing documentary about the beloved jazz legend. Offering an intimate, never-before-seen look at ...

It's called "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues." And Sacha Jenkins is here now. Welcome. SACHA JENKINS: Hello. Nice to be here. FLORIDO: Nice to have you. You know, one of the reasons people loved ...

In his documentary, "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues," Jenkins explores how Armstrong, and his trumpet, navigated Prohibition, the Great Depression, world wars, and the civil rights era.

Only now, it seems, can he be seen in a proper light, which is precisely what Sacha Jenkins shines on the man in “Louis Armstrong: Black & Blues.” The film may not take quite as many chances ...