Jazz Articles about Jimmy Scott

About Jimmy Scott

Album Review

It may be a cliché to state that a singer has to live before he or she can sing about life. But the hardships that Jimmy Scott has endured in a long life of struggle and injustice could, to quote another cliché, test the patience of Job.Yet, Jimmy Scott has endured. Without bitterness. Without regret. With optimism. With humanity.Possessing a hugely influential voice that has gone straight to the heart of some of the last half ...

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Album Review

Jimmy Scott: The Savoy Years And More...

Read "The Savoy Years And More..." reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1999

While time may heal all wounds, sometimes you wonder why those wounds are ever inflicted in the first place. Little Jimmy Scott, after years of as a cult figure in an on-again, off-again career in singing, is enjoying a resurgence in interest in his seventies. People like Nancy Wilson and Frankie Valli and Nancy Wilson understood Scott's unique talent early, and late-comers like director David Lynch, actor Joe Pesci, Bruce Spingsteen, Lou Reed and Bill Cosby comprise a coterie of ...