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The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

0.0 64 mins 1999
Director(s): John Akomfrah

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstrong from his humble beginnings in New Orleans through his career as America's Ambassador of Good Will. Film clips, vintage photographs and interviews with family, friends, fellow musicians and Armstrong himself are woven together to tell the story of this legendary personality.

Casts of The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

Danny Glover

as Narrator (voice)

Louis Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

Lillian Hardin

as Self

Gary Giddins

as Self

Stanley Crouch

as Self

George Avakian

as Self

Milton Gabler

as Self

Jack Bradley

as Self

John Barry

as Self

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