Io sono Tony Scott

Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come lItalia fece fuori il pi grande clarinettista del jazz English I am Tony Scott. The Story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist is a 2012 Italian documentary directed by Franco Maresco.

Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come lItalia fece fuori il pi grande clarinettista del jazz narrates in detail the private and artistic life of Tony Scott, who reportedly regarded himself as the number one clarinetist in the world. Through clips, pictures and interviews with people who knew Scott, this documentary film goes over the astonishing story of the life of Tony, who was a very popular clarinetist in the 1950s, but later encountered tremendous personal and professional decline, after relocating to Italy in the seventies.In the first part of the documentary, in the USA, the facts about Scotts artistic cooperation and strong friendship with Charlie Bird Parker and Billie Holiday are told, emphasizing his extraordinary talent as an experimenter and a virtuoso of jazz clarinet. In her interview, Tonys first wife, Fran Attaway, reveals a hitherto unknown detail of his biography according to her, during a trip to Indonesia, Tony was mistaken to be a spy and, consequently, detained and possibly tortured. Later in the film, it is suggested that this experience haunted him for the rest of his life and, perhaps, was the cause for the paranoid attitude he showed at times. ........

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