Jackie Paris: Tis Autumn

Short music clip featuring scenes from the upcoming feature length documentary, "Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris"

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Music

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• Jackie
• Paris
• Raymond
• DeFelitta
• Jazz
• Vocalist

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

One of the underrated vocalists of a great era. Thanks for posting this lovely gem.

Brew Lite

[ztav23]

Plenty of the great Jackie Paris at his prime available on iTunes.

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 Listen to Ella Fitzgerald singing a standard for instance “Too marvelous for words” and then listen to Sinatra; he doesn’t sing he speaks the lyrics. He is superficial; he sings every song in the same manner. He is just ridiculous… And Betty Carter is ridiculous too because to sing jazz is not about to deform the songs is to reconstruct them. She also sings every song in the same way.

[beeshor1]

[cont.] their own styles. Before Sinatra, male singing was mostly like Crosby. No one dared try to emulate the highly influential Satchmo. I can at least agree with you on Helen Merrill, though I would hardly call her a "fake" jazz singer. But then again, I would likely never call Christy on of the greatest jazz singers of all times. Before her, I would mention people like Ella, Sassy, Anita O'Day, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Blossom Dearie and quite a few others.

[beeshor1]

@Rickriquinho What you seem to be failing at understanding is that I'm speaking from a stylistic standpoint and not just famous names. When I speak of Sinatra and his jazz bona fides, I'm talking about him stylistically, not just his fame. He was a consistent winner of the Downbeat polls. I have already mentioned his status among the jazz elite. To disregard that is only foolish. Sinatra's style of singing pretty much set the standard for which all male jazz singers based [cont.]

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 Artists generally speaking don’t understand anything about art; we know it since Classical Antiquity; Socrates said it once, etc. Please don’t be ridiculous, Christy was one of the greatest jazz singers of all times, how couldn’t you see the difference between her and for instance another fake jazz singer called Helen Merrill"? Please forget famous names and try to compare the singers stylistically.

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 It’s because I am analyzing them stylistically while you are analyzing social phenomena. Who liked or not of this poor crooner called Sinatra is not important; his superficial sing is. He had nothing to do with jazz. Jazzmen’s opinions means nothing compared with facts, compared to art analysis. Sassy used to say that she was not a jazz singer… She was totally wrong about herself.

[beeshor1]

@Rickriquinho I can't get you to understand what musicians would call true jazz singing if you keep referencing Julie London over people like Cassandra Wilson or even Sinatra. I have heard many great jazzmen like Coltrane, Miles, Monk and many I haven't enough room to mention cite Sinatra as an influence. I don't quite recall the same being said of London or Christy, though I am a fan of both singers.

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 But John Pizzarelli, Jane Monheit, Cassandra Wilson, Michael Bublé, Renee Ostead are just crooners or fake jazz singers because they are superficial and didn’t assimilate entirely the jazz style.

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 You must learn to analyze things per se. I am talking about stylistics. Forget the names or if someone is famous, try to compare. Sinatra almost speaks the lyrics, he is anti-musical, his singing is superficial; June Christy is one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, I’m sorry if you don’t know this, Julie London is not so expressive but hear her with Bobby Troup, she sings in an aggressive jazz style not in a pop style.

[beeshor1]

@Rickriquinho Well, that's got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard someone say, especially coming from you. That I don't know what jazz singing is. You cite Julie London and June Christy over singers like Elling? And just about every great jazz musician of his era enjoyed Sinatra's swing work and balladry. Perhaps it is you who doesn't quite understand what makes a true jazz singer. Dorough certainly is one.

[Rickriquinho]

@beeshor1 The problem is that you don’t know what jazz singing is. How do I know this? Because you cited Sinatra… Frank is a crooner, a pop singer; he was anti-musical, he was prosaic, etc. Elling is whimsical, unprovided of real emotional transfiguration. Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Jackie Paris, Julie London, Carmem MacRae, June Christy, Kevin Mahogany,  Beverly Kenney are jazz singers.