Oct. 1 – The Italian National Association for Emigrant Families (ANFE) presents today “I am Tony Scott – How Italy Killed the Greatest Jazz Clarinet Player” by director Franco Maresco. The Sicilian regional ANFE delegation presents the documentary film at the Tribeca Performing Art Center in New York. The storyline follows the musical and personal path of Anthony “Scott” Sciacca, born in a Sicilian family emigrated from Salemi to Morristown, New Jersey. Tony began playing the clarinet at age 12, and graduated from Juilliard School in 1942. Alongside Buddy de Franco, Tony Scott is considered today the greatest clarinet player of bebop jazz in the world. The movie screening will be preceded by video message from the director, Maresco, and it will be presented by Antonio Mondra, film critic and newspaper correspondent in New York for La Repubblica, by Anthony Tamburri, dean of the Calandra Institute, by Letizia Airos, editor in chief of I-Italy.org, and Gaetano Calà, ANFE’s national director. In the crowd there will be Tony Scott’s daughter and his first wife, interviewed for the documentary.
