Apple has dropped the official trailer for Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Official trailer image for Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues on Apple TV Plus (Image credit: Apple)

Apple continues to drop all of the trailers for its upcoming projects.

Today, Apple TV Plus released the official trailer for Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, the upcoming documentary about the legendary musician. The documentary is directed and produced by Emmy-nominated Sacha Jenkins.

You can check out the official trailer on YouTube below:

You’ve heard his influential music, now hear his incredible story. Get to know Louis Armstrong through never-before-heard home recordings, archival footage, and personal conversations when Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues premieres October 28 on Apple TV+.

What is the new documentary about?

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues will offer "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.

The documentary is directed and produced by Emmy-nominated Sacha Jenkins, and produced by Imagine Documentaries, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes and Julie Anderson along with executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. The film is produced in association with Universal Music Group’s Polygram Entertainment with Michele Anthony and David Blackman serving as executive producers.

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues will premiere on Apple TV Plus on Friday, October 28. If you want to enjoy the documentary in the best quality possible, check out our review of the Apple TV 4K and our list of the Best TVs for Apple TV 2022.

Joe Wituschek
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Joe Wituschek is a Contributor at iMore. With over ten years in the technology industry, one of them being at Apple, Joe now covers the company for the website. In addition to covering breaking news, Joe also writes editorials and reviews for a range of products. He fell in love with Apple products when he got an iPod nano for Christmas almost twenty years ago. Despite being considered a "heavy" user, he has always preferred the consumer-focused products like the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPhone 13 mini. He will fight to the death to keep a mini iPhone in the lineup. In his free time, Joe enjoys video games, movies, photography, running, and basically everything outdoors.