Musical Globe

A portrait of Neapolitan saxophonist and singer-songwriter Enzo Avitabile, who combines his love of world music and jazz fusion with forgotten instruments and local folk drum rhythms. Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme follows Avitabile’s travels around Naples with a lively handheld camera: from his messy workroom in a working-class neighborhood to a visit to the poor suburb of Marianella, where he grew up. In the meantime, the energetic Avitabile talks about his turbulent life: about meeting living legends such as James Brown and Tina Turner, losing his wife, his conversion to Buddhism and return to Christianity, and the period when he was blind.