In 1991, Raymond De Felitta was listening to a Jazz station and heard a singer by the name of
Jackie Paris. Entranced by his style and technique, De Felitta began researching Paris. He
learned Paris had opened for Lenny Bruce, that his voice was admired by among others, Ella
Fitzgerald, Nat Cole and Sarah Vaughn. However, his research abruptly ended when he read in
The Biographical Dictionary of American Music, that Paris had died in 1977. De Felitta thought
that was the end of the story but one night in March of 2004, he was reading the New Yorker
Magazine and saw an advertisement listing Paris' comeback at the Jazz Standard. Stunned, he
wondered where had Paris been all these years, what had come of his life and why had a singer
of this talent fallen into such obscurity.
Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris is not just a documentary about a great but
unheralded jazz singer. It s a film that explores the very nature of what it is to live the life of an
artist--any artist. Filmmak
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Length: 02:29 Posted: 3/28/2009
