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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Fabric Type: 0897873002015
Graphics Memory Size: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Maximum Color Depth: Outsider Pictures
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Outsider Pictures
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Outsider Pictures
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: March 31, 2009
Total S Video Out Ports: 100 minutes
Outsider Pictures
2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris is more than a documentary film about a great but unhearalded jazz singer - it's also a brutally truthful exploration into what it is to live the life of an artist in its least glamorous aspects; the years of ups and downs, the constant hope that success is just around the corner, the humiliation of public ignominy, the private tragedies that grow out of artistic frustration, and the final, self-inflicted wounds which all too often are a prelude to complete obscurity. With interviews by a host of jazz legends including Dr. Billy Taylor, James Moody, Anne Marie Moss, Mark Murphy, George Wein and many others, this DVD boasts over 70 minutes of bonus features that include extended interviews with a number of jazz luminaries, filmmaker commentary, the theatrical trailer and concert footage of Jackie Paris' final performance.
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The career arc of Jackie Paris--widely considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time--is studded with a tragic succession of "what ifs." What if he hadn't turned down an invitation to join Duke Ellington after being the first white vocalist to tour with Lionel Hampton? What if his live performances with Charlie Parker had been recorded and released? And, not least, what if temperament, bad luck and ineffectual representation hadn't conspired to prevent him from grabbing the brass ... Read More
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There is no doubt, upon hearing his voice, that Paris was one of the best jazz singers in history. The question then becomes: Why doesn't anyone know his name?
"Tis Autumn" delves headfirst into this question, providing viewers with a glimpse into a life which is in turns impossibly beautiful and disturbingly mundane. This is the story of a great man whose flaws and bad choices did as much to make his career as his humanity and integrity did to ruin it. The same man who was unwilling ... Read More
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