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 In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.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 two musical masters swing out.

Oscar Peterson is accompanied by the stellar duo of bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen for eac...

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himsel...

A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed wit...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker T...

Vipal Monga's first feature-length documentary chronicles an unprecedented series of concerts perfor...

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.