The Zodiac Suite is a unique and audacious work by Mary Lou Williams, a talented 20th-century jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who fused jazz and classical music. Written in the mid-1940s, this work was never performed during her lifetime, and in an orchestration faithful to its composer, at a single concert in 1945 at Town Hall in New York.
Several decades later, following research at the Institute of Jazz at Rutgers University, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux discovered the original scores of the Zodiac Suite. Through meticulous research and adaptation, this French conductor set out to revive this little-known work. This film invites you to discover the story of this work and its resurrection…