Jimmy Scott
James Victor " Jimmy" Scott ( born July 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American jazz singer. His trademark (nicknamed Little Jimmy Scott, because of its petite stature ) is its rough soprano voice and a skillfully reduced to its essentials soulful vocal performance.
Life and work
Born the third of ten children in Cleveland Scott received first lessons in the church choir and his mother, whom he greatly admired, but already lost 13 years due to a car accident. Due to a rare genetic disorder, the Kallmann syndrome, fell from his puberty and thus his vocal change. He had initial success in the Lionel Hampton band, where he had the hit Everybody's Somebodys Fool in the late 1940s. On admission, he was however only called anonymously in the credits (as well as later on Charlie Parker's One night in Birdland as a singer of Embraceable You, where he was wrongly called a singer ). 1963 Ray Charles took him for his label Tangerine under contract and he made several recordings (like falling in love is wonderful 1963, The Soul of Little Jimmy Scott 1969). After that, his career broke off and he worked in a hospital and as a lift boy in his native Cleveland. After he had sung at the funeral of his old friend Doc Pomus in 1991, brought him Lou Reed as a backing vocalist for his album Magic and Loss (1992). Also vocals for the TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch brought him the music industry back in memory, so that he brought out several new albums from the mid- 1990s.
In 2007 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Everybody's Everybody 's Fool ( Decca / GRP, 1950-52 ) with Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Billy Taylor, Lucky Thompson
- The Voice of an Angel: The Essential Jimmy Scott (Memo, 1952-75 )
- The Source (Atlantic, 1970) with David " Fathead " Newman, Junior Mance, Eric Gale, Ron Carter
- Dreams ( Sire / Warner Bros., 1994) with Red Holloway, Junior Mance, Milt Jackson, Ron Carter
- Heaven ( Warner Bros., 1996) with Jacky Terrasson
- But Beautiful ( Milestone, 2001) with Wynton Marsalis, Lew Soloff, Eric Alexander, George Mraz, Lewis Nash
Filmography
Appearances
- Twin Peaks, Season 2, Episode 29 (1991 )
- Scotch & Milk ( 1998)
- Passion Play (2010)
Soundtracks
- Twin Peaks, Season 2, Episode 22 (1991) and
- Twin Peaks - The Movie (1992 ) Soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti: " Sycamore Trees"
- Chelsea Walls ( 2001), " Jealous Guy " from 1971
Documentation
- Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen (2002)
- Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2004)
- Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott ( 2012)
- Village Music: Last of the Great Record Stores ( 2012)