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 In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.
“The Language of the Unknown” accompanies the great saxophonist and his band with a concert on Novem...
Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed wit...
Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out ...
The name Ray Charles stands for superstar worldwide. He is an icon in the music world, has a star on...
Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in t...
It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances ...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
In 1979 and 1980, three world renowned guitarists, John Mc Laughlin, Paco De Lucia and Larry Coryell...
A documentary about the life and music of Justin Pearson. An enigmatic underground musician and owne...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
John Zorn: alto sax, vocals Bill Frisell: guitar Wayne Horvitz: keyboards, piano Fred Frith: bass...
Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Ha...
A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all...
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himsel...
In this sober and moody documentary, director Anders Østergaard explores the life - and death - of S...