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Jackie Paris

Anyone can appreciate Jackie without having to be a music fanatic, a "jazz head" or without knowing anything about Jackie's life. However, his story is a remarkable part of the history of jazz.

He toured with and performed with the Charlie Parker Quintet which included Miles Davis, Max Roach, Duke Jordan and Tommy Potter.

Jackie introduced the first vocal recording of Thelonious Monk's classic standard "Round Midnight". He was one of Charles Mingus' favorite singers, and was the first vocal artist on Mingus' label Debut, recording "Portrait" and "Paris in Blue", which Mingus wrote for him.

He toured and performed with the Lionel Hampton Big Band for two years, where he was billed as "The Voice". He also recorded with the original Dizzy Gillespie Big Band.

At one time or another he won just about every jazz poll and award, including the Downbeat, Playboy, Swing Journal and Metronome polls/awards. As a leader or a sideman he has worked with virtually every great jazz musician.

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Film Review

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Read "'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris" reviewed by George Kanzler


Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Reinvent the Wheel-Outsider Pictures 2009

Before Jackie Paris won the Downbeat new star male vocalist award in 1953, he'd already made his mark with a Nat “King" Cole-style trio (he played guitar) on 52nd Street and toured with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton's big band. By 1959 Downbeat was running a story titled “Downbeat Boy Hits Upbeat" and declaring that Paris was “washed ...

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'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Read "'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Jackie Paris'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisOutsider PicturesWritten and Directed by Raymond De FelittaProducer: David Zellerford 2009

“You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."--Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront

There are three quintessential types of American biographies: “The Success"; “The Tragedy"; and “The Faded Glory" (a variation being “The Anti-Hero"). Jackie Paris ...

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Recording

Jackie Paris & Anne Marie Moss Live at the Maisonette

Jackie Paris & Anne Marie Moss Live at the Maisonette

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On the afternoon of September 28, 1974, husband-and-wife singers Jackie Paris and Anne Marie Moss videotaped a gig in the Maisonette at New York's St. Regis Hotel. They were backed by Mike Abene on piano, Harvie S on electric bass and Steve Gadd on drums. The point of the taping was to support a TV-show concept Paris and Moss were pitching. When the TV show didn't pan out, an album of the material, Jackie Paris & Anne Marie Moss Live ...

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Songs By Jackie Paris

Songs By Jackie Paris

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The high-point of singer Jackie Paris's recording career came in November 1955. Over the course of three days, Paris recorded Jackie Paris for the Wing label, a Mercury subsidiary (the album also is known as Songs by Paris). Paris's voice was at its romantic club-cool peak, but even more impressive was the arranger—Manny Albam—and the players on the three sessions. They were some of New York's finest. There Will Never Be Another You, Wrap Your Trouble in Dreams, Indiana and ...

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Jackie Paris + Anne Marie Moss

Jackie Paris + Anne Marie Moss

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Right at the peak of his recording career, when The Song Is Paris (Impulse) was released in 1962, Jackie Paris felt the jazz earth crumble beneath his feet. In the late 1940s and '50s, he had been among New York's hippest club singers, a jazz musician's singer. But by the early '60s, Paris was never able to leverage opportunity beyond jazz as the market shifted to pop. As a result, Paris spent the '60s scuffling as big-label recording shots for ...

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Interview

Sad, Violent, Obscure Saga of Jazz Singer Jackie Paris

Sad, Violent, Obscure Saga of Jazz Singer Jackie Paris

Source: Michael Ricci

Stumbling upon a talent as imposing, magnetic, and seemingly unflawed as that of Jackie Paris prompts both exhilaration and unease.

A jazz singer whose career spanned the 1940s through the '70s, Paris seems to have been everywhere and nowhere - singing with jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, recording highly acclaimed albums, but constantly missing the career boat, often by a hair. He remained so obscure that he appeared, literally, to die before his time: One notable jazz dictionary says ...

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"'Tis Autumn, the Search for Jackie Paris" Set for March 31 DVD Release

"'Tis Autumn, the Search for Jackie Paris" Set for March 31 DVD Release

Source: All About Jazz

Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris is not just a documentary about a great but unheralded jazz singer, it explores the very nature of what it is to live the life of any artist--too many of whom share the same fate--the explosive debut, followed by the years of ups and downs, and the constant hope that success, though out of reach, is just around the corner, the private tragedies that grow out of artistic frustration, and the final, ...

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Jackie Paris Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007

Jackie Paris Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

"Magnificent and moving. Elegantly judged...the entire work is sculpted with great, personal care." - Robert Koehler, VARIETY Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee called him a great talent. He toured with Charlie Parke and Lionel Hampton. He was the first vocalist to record with Charles Mingus on the Debut label ("Paris in Blues"). He was the first singer ever to record what would become the jazz anthem, “'Round Midnight." Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael considered Jackie's version of “Skylark" to be ...

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Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007

Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

"Magnificent and moving. Elegantly judged...the entire work is sculpted with great, personal care." - Robert Koehler, VARIETY Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee called him a great talent. He toured with Charlie Parke and Lionel Hampton. He was the first vocalist to record with Charles Mingus on the Debut label ("Paris in Blues"). He was the first singer ever to record what would become the jazz anthem, “'Round Midnight." Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael considered Jackie's version of “Skylark" to be ...

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"'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris" at the 2006 Newport International Film Festival

"'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris" at the 2006 Newport International Film Festival

Source: All About Jazz

Newport, RI, Screenings for 'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris

Hangover Lounge proudly announces two film screenings of the feature documentary 'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris at the 2006 Newport International Film Festival.

Friday, June 9th - 6:30 pm Saturday, June 10th - 9:00pm Opera House Cinema - Newport, RI For tickets please visit http://www.newportfilmfestival.com/ or call (401) 851-6963

'Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris is director Raymond De Felitta's ...

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Obituary

Jackie Paris: Singer with Mingus, Bird, Hampton

Jackie Paris: Singer with Mingus, Bird, Hampton

Source: All About Jazz

Born: September 20, 1924 in Nutley, NJ Died: June 17, 2004 in Manhattan, NY by Todd S. Jenkins Jazz singer Jackie Paris died of bone cancer on Thursday, June 17, 2004 in Manhattan. He was 79 years old. Criminally under-recorded, Paris was one of the most impressive vocalists of the bebop era and the first to sing Bernie Hanighen's lyrics to Monk's “Round Midnight". Born Carlo Jackie Paris in Nutley, New Jersey, on September 20, 1924, the singer ...

"Jackie Paris is representative of that rare genius, the male jazz singer. Paris is one of the handful of male singers who have retained the true jazz sound." —Leonard Feather

"Jackie, whether in a club or on a recording, is able to so reach listeners, one at a time, that they in turn join their powers of concentration to his and so a microcosm is formed. He is an original!" —Nat Hentoff

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