Steve e il Duca

April. 27,2024

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary Music

Keywords：

Jazz Steve Lacy Duke Ellington

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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 In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.

Franco Maresco as Self

Duke Ellington as Self (archival)

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