Jackie Paris was a legendary jazz vocalist and guitarist who performed with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Louis Armstrong. His records are mostly out of print, and he disappeared so completely that at least one major reference work listed him as dying in 1977 – but a quarter of a century later, he suddenly resumed his career. Raymond De Felitta filmed extensive interviews with Paris before his death in 2004, in which everyone from musical historians to Paris’s family consider why the singer’s career faded.Part detective film, part tribute, ’Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris chronicles one jazz aficionado’s obsession with understanding why the gifted vocalist has been so overlooked and unheralded. De Felitta makes a strong case for rediscovering this little-known artist. Even non-jazz fans will enjoy the filmmaker’s personal approach to uncovering the mystery surrounding Paris’s career.
Rated PG, Documentary, USA, 100 minutes
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