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A musical journey to the roots of Jazz with an enigmatic and complicated character of Sicilian origins born in New Orleans: Nick La Rocca who claimed to be the first man of jazz.
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Sicily Jass – The world’s first man in jazz narrates the human vicissitudes of Nick La Rocca and the problematic role that the musician played in the history of Jazz. A Sicilian born in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century, La Rocca made the first record in the history of jazz, Livery Stable Blues, with his Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917. The record was to sell more than a million copies and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in the space of a few weeks would become the highest-paid jazz band in the world while their tracks, from Tiger Rag to Clarinet Marmalade, would go on to influence some of the greatest jazz-players, including Louis Armstrong.
The film, with an intermingling of fiction and real documentary, between a timeless Sicily and the New Orleans of today and of yesterday, centres on Nick La Rocca. A self-taught trumpet-player (and building contractor), an unwelcome persona non grata as a white man in the world of black music par excellence, his surly nature would take him from the dizzy heights of success to a sad
decline. With the incessant rhythm of Dixieland Jazz, accompanied by the original soundtrack of a ghostly Sicilian jazz quintet, with the street music of New Orleans, “Sicily Jass – The world’s first man in jazz” is an introspective journey narrated by the voice, the gestures and the puppets of Mimmo Cuticchio.
Jazz critics and historians’ comments, along with archive material that has been re-elaborated with the latest graphic techniques, make up the narrative and give spectators the opportunity to re-live that era of success of the band. The voice of Nick La Rocca himself in a hitherto unedited interview, together with the intimacy of the tale of Nick’s son Jimmy lead us to discover in the end why La Rocca and his band are often forgotten in the historiography of jazz.
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Written and directed by Michele Cinque
Produced by: MRF5 and GA&A Productions in association with LazyFilm, with the support of RAI Cinema, MiBact, Regione Sicilia, Regione Lazio.
Length: 73’
Shooting Format: HD 16/9
Director’s Biography
Michele Cinque is an Italian filmmaker who’s specialized in music, particularly in jazz. Among his last documentaries related to music: Lavoroliquido (winner of the award Opera Imaie and presented in various film festivals among which Zebra Berlino), Il profeta del reggae (broadcast on Rai Storia and Rai Due, presented at Fipatel 2010), Mr. Jazz (commissioned by RAI).
Previous work at: www.lazyfilm.it or http://vimeo.com/user19340276
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