Filmmaker Jonathan Demme's latest film focuses on the life of Enzo Avitabile.

Jonathan Demme's New Music Doc, DeLeon In The Studio

Soundcheck | Nov 9, 2012

Tonight on Soundcheck: Filmmaker Jonathan Demme is perhaps best known for Silence Of The Lambs and Rachel Getting Married, as well as the classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. But he's back with a new music documentary about relatively unknown Italian saxophonist Enzo Avitabile.

Then Deleon performs live in the studio.

 

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