Jimmy Scott, the jazz star whose small stature, romantic phrasing and distinctly high voice helped make him one of the most unique vocal stylists of his era, died in his sleep on Thursday June 12, 2014. The singer was 88.
Scott transformed that voice into a marvelous musical
instrument, one that was as expressive and as nuanced as any other in
the history of jazz. “Little” Jimmy Scott’s first taste of fame
occurred in 1949 when he got a job singing with Lionel Hampton and His
Orchestra but it wasn’t until January 1950 that Jimmy and the Hampton
band recorded Scott’s one and only hit, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.”
Jimmy Scott began releasing records under his own name in
the 1950s but in the decades that followed he was up and down, in and
out, gone and back, and for a time, literally lost to the music
business. A one-time contemporary of great talents like Charlie Parker
and Billie Holiday, as well as more obscure musicians like Big Maybelle,
he remained a jazz singer nonpareil across seven decades. MORE HERE & HERE
Little Jimmy Scott : The Savoy Years & More
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