Cast 17

1. 

   Cab Calloway

   Self (archive footage)

2. 

   Louis Armstrong

   Self (archive footage)

3. 

   Louis Jordan

   Self (archive footage)

4. 

   Duke Ellington

   Self (archive footage)

5. 

   Bill Robinson

   Self (archive footage)

6. 

   Nat King Cole

   Self (archive footage)

7. 

   Lena Horne

   Self (archive footage)

8. 

   Charlie Parker

   Self (archive footage)

9. 

   Dizzy Gillespie

   Self (archive footage)

10. 

    Count Basie

    Self (archive footage)

11. 

    Fats Waller

    Self (archive footage)

12. Fletcher Henderson

    Self (archive footage)

13. The Mills Brothers

    Self (archive footage)

14. Sidney Bechet

    Self (archive footage)

15. 

    Dorothy Dandridge

    Self (archive footage)

16. 

    Billy Eckstine

    Self (archive footage)

17. Warren Schaefer

    Narrator

Crew 2