Review of Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) by John Anderson for Wall Street Journal — 27 Oct 2022
The film may not take quite as many chances with the documentary form as Armstrong took with the opening cadenza of “West End Blues” (recorded by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five in 1928) but it is a daring work, a worthy and affectionate statement about the most important single figure in American popular music, 20th Century Division.
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This review of Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) was written by John Anderson and published by Wall Street Journal on 27 October 2022.
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues has generally received positive reviews.
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