On screen
Cast
16 credited performers
Cab Calloway
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Louis Jordan
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Bill Robinson
Self (archive footage)
Nat King Cole
Self (archive footage)
Lena Horne
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Charlie Parker
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Count Basie
Self (archive footage)
Fats Waller
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Fletcher Henderson
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Sidney Bechet
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Dandridge
Self (archive footage)
Billy Eckstine
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Warren Schaefer
Narrator