In 1999, on the occasion of the centenary of Ellington's birth, Franco Maresco commissioned Steve Lacy to perform ten songs by the Duke, which were recorded and filmed in Palermo. In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco M...
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
Recorded Live on July 18th, 1986 at "Montreux Casino", during the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerlan...
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to...
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection a...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Inside Out In The Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz, popularly known as free jaz...
This legendary performance by Van Morrison and The Caledonia Soul Orchestra was filmed at The Rainbo...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
A documentary about Cairo Jazz Festival's Amr Salah and his struggle every year to bring people and ...
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin. Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arran...
The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to K...
Chart-topping jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and special guests performed two star-studded concerts at t...