Steve e il Duca (2024)
Overview
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 In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 0.658 |
Directed By
Germano Maccioni
TOP CAST
Franco Maresco
Self
Steve Lacy
Self (archival)
Duke Ellington
Self (archival)
Germano Maccioni
Self (voice)
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