Jazz Articles about Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon: Blue Spoon/ Spoon In London

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 2001

‘Spoon’ was a singer who regularly defied rote categorization. The rudiments of his vocal approach were most prevalently built from the blues, but over a career that spanned decades he sang in a range of styles that ran the gamut from gospel to pop. Jazz was also a favorite song source for the singer, and Blue Spoon, the first album collected on this Prestige two-fer, finds him fitting his bluesy baritone into the context of a top-flight jazz combo. Kenny ...