Jenkins' film doesn’t play like your standard biography. It’s more intimate than that, more personal and far more revealing than most works about the jazz giant.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Armstrong’s smiling image was important to him. I wish this documentary had been less interested in preserving that, though, and more focused on helping us understand the totality of a titanic artist and a fascinating man.

| Feb 11, 2023

Some stunningly crisp archive footage, particularly of old American chat and variety 온라인카지노추천 shows, combines with previously unheard personal recordings to create this rounded portrait of one of jazz’s most influential players.

| Dec 19, 2022

While he was internationally recognized and revered for his musical skill and legacy, he had strong opinions about the civil rights issues in his homeland. Archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings of his opinions illuminate these points.

| Dec 19, 2022

Sacha Jenkins’ engrossing and informative documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues reintroduces one of the 20th century’s most towering and beloved cultural icons to a new generation.

| Dec 19, 2022

It’s a must for Armstrong fans, and for those new to Satchmo, a great introduction to a jazz icon.

| Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2022

Focuses on Armstrong's personality, his legacy and cultural impact, and the way he used his fame and influence to break down some of the first barriers caused by racism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 15, 2022

While other self-narrations could pull a punch, Armstrong’s openness is refreshing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 10, 2022

It has something new to say, and says it with poise, polish and compassion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 9, 2022

By mining out a large array of archive footage, Jenkins crafts a more full-bodied picture of an artist that is perhaps only known to a younger generation as the gravelly singer of “What a wonderful world.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 8, 2022

It’s easy to see how the director was influenced and inspired by the great Louis Armstrong to generate Jenkins’ own creative, filmmaking version, of jazz

| Nov 7, 2022

Armstrong will always be remembered fondly for his musicality, but having his opinions on various topics and societal issues so prominently displayed allows us to hear him loud and clear, and maybe for the first time ever.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 7, 2022

Black and Blues’ forensic examination gives a three-dimensional portrait of the man known affectionately as “Pops” and “Sachmo”. No-one is one thing, particularly in show business, and Jenkins’ well-researched film shows the beauty in complication.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2022

Though the director Sacha Jenkins’s biographical portrait of Louis Armstrong is blandly conventional in its form, its wide-ranging material is inspiring and illuminating.

| Nov 7, 2022

This picks some very specific spots, but his relationship with civil rights leaders... All of that is really fascinating.

| Nov 4, 2022

A deeply affecting and mesmerizing documentary.

| Nov 4, 2022

…joyfully but soberly investigates Armstrong’s immense artistry and complicated legacy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2022

“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” is an involving, well documented look at the professional and personal highs and lows of a genuine American treasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2022

Enriched by Armstrong’s own mighty library of writings and tape recordings, the man that emerges is intriguingly complex: doggedly apolitical yet politically engaged.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2022

Refreshing documentary on the gravelly-voiced great pioneering Black jazzman Louis Armstrong.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2022