Over time, I’ve come to trust Jonathan Demme’s taste in music. There is something both idiosyncratic and astute about the soundtracks of his narrative features, whether a breakout hit from Bruce ...

29/08/2012 - With Enzo Avitabile Music Life, America’s great director meets the talented Neapolitan multi-instrumentalist and composer on the universal territory of world music Only those who have a ...

On Saturday, June 8th, the Benevento Conservatory will confer the Honorary Degree to Enzo Avitabile. The ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. at the De Simone Theater. The academic council has decided ...

Director Jonathan Demme's simple, straightforward documentary centers around a jam session that features extraordinary talents of contemporary world music. By Deborah Young Venice Film Festival Enzo ...

World music. Jazz fusion. Spoken word. If any of these phrases drive you to preemptively plug your ears, you’ll likely go batty sitting through Enzo Avitabile Music Life, the latest music documentary ...

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has had a career that vacillates mainly between dark dramas ("The Silence of the Lambs," "Rachel Getting Married") and music documentaries. He has trained his ...

Few labels are as meaninglessly reductive as "world music," yet there isn't another term to describe the range of Italo musician Enzo Avitabile's inspirations, captured in Jonathan Demme's "Enzo ...

Few labels are as meaninglessly reductive as "world music," yet there isn't another term to describe the range of Italo musician Enzo Avitabile's inspirations, captured in Jonathan Demme's "Enzo ...

Depending upon how performance films like Stop Making Sense and Swimming To Cambodia are classified, Jonathan Demme can now be said to have made almost as many documentaries as fictional narratives.