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Details: 2006, USA, Cert 15, 100 mins, Documentary, Dir: Raymond De Felitta
Summary: An investigation into the mysterious life of the late jazz vocalist Jackie Paris
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
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Philip French
Paris was a minor Italian-American jazz singer who had fame in the Fifties and Sixties and faded into obscurity
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Cath Clarke
Documentary that tracks down the be-bop singer who toured with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie before falling into obscurity
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He sang with the greats and was feted by jazz's best-known stars. But what happened to Jackie Paris? Raymond De Felitta tells a story of unfulfilled promise
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