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Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful
by C. Michael Bailey
There is no other voice in Jazz like Jimmy Scott’s Voice... The Eighteenth Century saw the zenith of a subset of opera singers known collectively as the castrati. These singers, eunuchs relieved of their primary sexual characteristics between the ages of 7 and 10 years, had voices full, with high range and perfect timbre. Technically, the normal male voice deepens during puberty under the pressure of increasing secretion of the male sex hormone testosterone, or more probably its ...
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