A kind of Tony: story of a documentary interview with legend jazzman Tony Scott

In the summer of 2001, just before 9/11, just before my eventful tenure at the New York Film Academy, I met one of the few living jazz legends who had played with Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. An endearing bearded man, quite a mythomaniac -who was one of the first to perform behind the Soviet Iron Curtain- who fused African and Oriental music before anyone else, and transcended his bebop origins to invent the new age sound. That encounter, filmed with a camcorder that I was driving in fits and starts, has been kept in my archives until today, more than 20 years later when it finally comes to light in the form of a short documentary film. Anthony Sciacca, probably Antonio for his family of Sicilian origins, was an extraordinary clarinetist who burst onto the lively American jazz scene in the 1950s, under the stage name of Tony Scott. Gifted for rubbing shoulders with swing stars, such as Benny Goodman or Woody Herman, he was immediately fascinated by the rupture proposed by Charlie Parker and the beboppers. He began to stand out in his thirties, but fate had prepared another life for him (read the obituary of good Chema García <a href="https://elpais.com/diario/2007/04/02/agenda/1175464806_850215.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">published in EL PAÍS</a> for his death). <a href="https://miguelangelrolland.medium.com/a-kind-of-tony-story-of-a-documentary-interview-with-legend-jazzman-tony-scott-f3c8879be5a7">Click Here</a>