Over the weekend, Louis ... I can’t play here,’” says Jenkins. “That in and of itself is a civil rights action.” In Black & Blues, Jenkins chronicles a rare instance where Armstrong ...

Sacha Jenkins’ engrossing and informative documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” reintroduces ... his virtuosity in trumpet and cornet playing and incredibly distinctive singing ...

playing from the heavens. Each note vibrated like a shimmering pearl lit from within. No one had sounded like that; no one had commanded like that. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues ...

(SOUNDBITE OF KING OLIVER'S "CHIMES BLUES") KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Louis Armstrong on cornet ... student was surpassing the master. Armstrong could play higher, louder and longer.

He’s done that with "Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues" (streaming Friday on Apple ... I’m not going to play here,’" says Jenkins. "So while he didn’t say he was a civil rights activist ...

Director Sacha Jenkins does the most important thing he could do in “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”: He lets Louis ... might of his trumpet playing, then his revolutionary approach to ...

Over the weekend, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues was named Best Music Documentary ... After his innovative trumpet playing and distinctive burnished baritone made him a sensation in the clubs ...

He idolized Joe “King” Oliver, and by the time he was in his 20s he was playing with Oliver ... One of the revelations of “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” is that it deals with how ...