Jazz Articles about Mansur Scott

About Mansur Scott

Extended Analysis

Mansur Scott: Great Voices of Harlem

by Larry Reni Thomas
July 25, 2014

Those of us who know better laughed, snickered, recently, when we read that Harlem-based vocalist extraordinaire Mansur Scott was a “rising star." We will agree that he is definitely a “star" because he always shines when he sings. His first album, Sometimes Forgotten Sometimes Remembered (Pao Records, 2010), was excellent and caught the attention of a great deal of music lovers. His latest recording, Great Voices Of Harlem (Pao Records) includes two other singers, Gregory Porter and Donald Smith, who ...

Album Review

Mansur Scott Harlem Quartet: Sometimes Forgotten, Sometimes Remembered

Read "Sometimes Forgotten, Sometimes Remembered" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 13, 2013

Male jazz singers are a rare breed and most fashion themselves after the quintessential crooner Frank Sinatra. It is, therefore, intriguing to discover one with as singular, bold and blues-based as Mansur Scott. His intimate and intensely personal Sometimes Forgotten, Sometimes Remembered was released after a brush with death due to a heart attack and stroke, and is an affirmative celebration of life, with a strong spiritual and mystical bent.“Nature Boy," opens with bassist Wayne Batchelor's atmospheric, reverberating ...