Cast ~

Keith David

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Narrator (voice)

Sidney Bechet

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Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

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Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

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Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman

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Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

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Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

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Self (archive footage)

Glenn Miller

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Self (archive footage)

Dave Brubeck

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Self (archive footage)

Art Tatum

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Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane

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Self (archive footage)

Art Blakey

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Self (archive footage)

Charles Mingus

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Self (archive footage)

Wynton Marsalis

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Self

Miles Davis

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Self (archive footage)

Lester Young

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Self (archive footage)

Stanley Crouch

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Self

Prod. ~ Crew

Lynn Novick

Production

Ken Burns

Production

Geoffrey C. Ward

Writing