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 In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.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
Steve Lacy
as Self (archival)
Duke Ellington
as Self (archival)
Germano Maccioni
as Self (voice)
