Keith David

Narrator (voice)

Sidney Bechet

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman

Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

Self (archive footage)

Glenn Miller

Self (archive footage)

Dave Brubeck

Self (archive footage)

Art Tatum

Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

Art Blakey

Self (archive footage)

Charles Mingus

Self (archive footage)

Wynton Marsalis

Self

Miles Davis

Self (archive footage)

Lester Young

Self (archive footage)

Stanley Crouch

Self