簡(jiǎn)介: “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.
“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.展開