Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Jim Blackman

Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

Theo Bleckmann

Self

Regina Carter

Self

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Self

Terri Lyne Carrington

Self

Will Friedwald

Self - music critic

Tad Hershorn

Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Sheila Jordan

Self

Dianne Reeves

Self

Judith Tick

Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University

Katja Duregger