Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Jazz Film Series @ Library of Congress
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| April 23, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
‘Tis Autumn–The Search for Jackie Paris (Outsider Pictures, 2006). Dir & Wrt Raymond De Felitta. Producer Peter Peterson. (100 min, color, DVD)
For a time in the 1950s and 60s, the Italian-American jazz singer and guitarist Jackie Paris seemed poised for stardom. He worked on 52nd Street during its heyday, won the Down Beat Critics Poll, toured with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton, and recorded with luminaries Charles Mingus, Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce. Then inexplicably, Paris’s career went into free-fall and he lapsed into undeserved obscurity. Filmmaker Raymond De Felitta searches out the 79-year old singer while he attempts a comeback and unravels the mystery behind the roller coaster career of this über-hip jazz singer.
free as always
information here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
