'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

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Movie
German title 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
Original title 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Raymond De Felitta
script Raymond De Felitta
production David Zellerford
camera Chad Davidson , Eli Heitin , Ruben O'Malley , Jeremy Saulnier , David Zellerford
cut John W. Wayland
occupation

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris is a documentary directed by Raymond De Felitta and released in 2006. He explores the question of why the jazz singer Jackie Paris fell into almost complete oblivion.

background

The pianist Billy Taylor (photo from 1977) said of his colleague in the film: “ He was hard to get along with some times. "

Raymond De Felitta first heard Jackie Paris with the song Skylark (from the Brunswick album of the same name from 1954) on the radio in 1991 and was immediately fascinated by the singer. He began researching in the 2000s and found that the singer should have died in 1977. Finally, in 2004, the filmmaker discovered that Jackie Paris was actually still alive and performing in clubs. Although Paris died just twelve weeks later, De Felitta continued the film project and interviewed his former wife Anne Marie Moss and his son, who had never met Jackie Paris, as well as record collectors, discographers, jazz critics and former musicians.

De Felitta's film explores the question of what happened to Jackie Paris after his career had peaked in the 1950s and '60s and the Italian-American singer disappeared into oblivion. Contemporaries of the singer have their say in the film, including jazz musicians and insiders from the music business such as Anne Marie Moss , Howard Rumsey , Ruth Price , Gene Davis, Billy Taylor , Mark Murphy , Ira Gitler , Terry Gibbs , James Moody , Teddy Charles , Billy Vera , Phil Schaap , Will Friedwald and George Wein as well as the director Peter Bogdanovich , the actor Frank Whaley and the journalist Nick Tosches , as well as ex-wives and members of the singer's family. Many theories are spread as to why Jackie Paris never made the big breakthrough - the reasons given are his temperament and ego, as well as the mafia or simply bad luck and bad timing. Mysterious at the end of his life, Paris finally expresses:

“To stay alive meant to stay yourself; what the hell would we be otherwise? "
"To be alive was to be your own person; otherwise why the hell are we here? "

reception

De Felitta's film received favorable reviews in the international and American press; "It gives us a glimpse back to a time when the initiated was cool and jazz was king, and reminds us that the power of great music transcends time, fate, exile and even death," praised Bruce DeMara in the Toronto Star .

Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times (2007), 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris hires a great artist who has long disappeared into a long overdue spotlight.

George Kanzler said in All About Jazz in 2009 that De Felitta's film shows, especially with the recordings of the comeback appearances in the Jazz Standard , the great talent Jackie Paris had, who was described by critics as one of the few pop jazz singers who was in the Was able to generate the bebop.

Robert Koehler wrote in Variety that De Felitta was brilliantly constructing a story that draws from a sincere love of jazz and wants to understand why Jackie Paris went "from a sensation to a footnote of his generation". The film should be an essential glimpse for jazz fans, but it will also appeal to a wider audience by being heralded as a soulful mystery story.

Nick Schager wrote in Slant that the first-class documentary paints a vivid picture of the bebop and jazz scene of the 1940s and 50s; in the person of Jackie Paris he shows the pain of unfulfilled wishes, as well as the origin of the anger that thwarted his ambitions.

Marc Myers wrote: "The film is the model of what all jazz documentaries should be: Not an endless chain of talking heads, but a poetic, emotional and romantic exploration with a strong story and point of view."

The film was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary category .

Music of the film

The songs interpreted in the film are Paris in Blue ( Charles Mingus ), Strange ( John La Touche , Marvin Fisher ), 'Tis Autumn ( Henry Nemo ), Indiana ( Ballard MacDonald , James F. Hanley ), Bohemia (E. Smollet, M. Allen, C. Shirley), Do Me Somethin ' , Big Fat Nothin' ( Chubby Jackson ), 'Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk , Bernie Hanighen , Cootie Williams ), I Can Hardly Wait' til Saturday Night ( Steve Allen , Terry Gibbs ), Skylark ( Johnny Mercer , Hoagy Carmichael ), Cherry ( Don Redman ), Everybody Needs Love ( Phil Medley , Ray Passman ), Too Soon ( Sunny Skylar , J. Robert Harris ), I've Had a Heck of a Time ( Jacques Wilson ), with Jackie Paris, vocals, Thou Swell ( Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ), The More I See You ( Mack Gordon , Harry Warren , with Jackie Paris and Anne Marie Moss, vocals), 'Tis autumn (Henry Nemo ), interpreted by the Red Garland Trio, Mexicali Rose ( Helen Stone , Jack Tenney ), interpreted by Jackie Paris and his trio, Moose the Mooche (komponi and played by Charlie Parker ), Oh, Look at Me Now ( John De Vries , Joe Bushkin ), interpreted by Jackie Paris and Peggy Lee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Koehler: 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris. In: Variety. January 27, 2006, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c George Chancellor: Review of 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris. In: All About Jazz . May 10, 2009, accessed September 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris in Library of Congress
  4. ^ Overview in Rotten Tomatoes
  5. ^ Review of the film by Jeannette Catsoulis. In: The New York Times. December 7, 2007, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Nick Schager: 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris' Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris. In: Slant. December 3, 2007, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  7. ^ Marc Myers: Doc: Search for Jackie Paris. Jazzwax, September 9, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .