His manager at the time was a potbellied white gangster named Johnny Collins, ... Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues isn't the film to unpack what made Armstrong such an incandescent jazz pioneer, ...

By the early 1930s, Louis Armstrong had already revolutionized jazz. Through the next four decades, ... Tommy Rockwell and Johnny Collins – claimed him as their client.

Also in key roles are Carbonell Award winners Stephen G. Anthony as Joe Glaser and actor-playwright Michael McKeever as Johnny Collins, men who were Armstrong’s managers; DeWitt Fleming Jr. as ...