Jazz Articles about Jackie Paris

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

by George Kanzler
May 10, 2009

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 ...

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

by Victor L. Schermer
February 17, 2009

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 ...