FROM THE VERY FIRST MINUTES OF AMERICAN filmmaker Sacha Jenkins' documentary Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues, we get a searing, intimate glimpse into the mind of the jazz great. With the camera up close and capturing all the faces Armstrong pulls as he sings and plays trumpet, the song "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" highlights just how outspoken the artist was. "I'm white inside, but that don't help my case/'Cause I can't hide what is in my face," he sings at one point.
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