Jimmy Scott

[Hardbopjazz]

Ahamd did put on a great show. The band was very tight.

[Mark Stryker]

"Falling in Love is Wonderful" has just been reissued on LP, CD, and streaming. Devasting. Absolutely devasting. Only three singers can stop the world like this on a ballad: Scott, Sinatra, and Holiday. I have been listening to this track constantly and crying. Music can stimulate all kinds of ideas and emotions, but if it doesn't make you FEEL something deep within you, then what are we even doing here? 

1962. The song is by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics). Gerald Wilson wrote the arrangement. 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:56 PM by Mark Stryker

[gmonahan]

5 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:

"Falling in Love is Wonderful" has just been reissued on LP, CD, and streaming. Devasting. Absolutely devasting. Only three singers can stop the world like this on a ballad: Scott, Sinatra, and Holiday. I have been listening to this track constantly and crying. Music can stimulate all kinds of ideas and emotions, but if it doesn't make you FEEL something deep within you, then what are we even doing here? 

1962. The song is by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics). Gerald Wilson wrote the arrangement. 

 

Yes, that is a wonderful album. I have the Rhino release. "The Source" is also great, and, of course, the albums he did for Savoy. A marvelous and truly individual artist.

 

[JSngry]

Add Shirley Horn to that list.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The thing about Jimmy Scott that always catches me off guard when I hear him on the radio is that I almost always wonder what female singer is singing until I see his name pop up on the display. He sings in such a high register for a male singer it's uncanny how close he comes to the pitch of many female singers.

[Big Beat Steve]

Similar initial reaction here .. and the Youtube excerpt from the "Fallin Love" album at first made me think "So Pee Wee Marquette is singing now too??" 

For a slightly different and more grittier setting the below CD would merit some listening too:

https://www.discogs.com/master/1041704-Little-Jimmy-ScottPaul-Gayten-Band-With-Special-Guest-Sam-Butera-Regal-Records-Live-In-New-Orleans

Somehow I feel the somewhat more youthful Jimmy Scott doesn't sound quite so "female" there, but rather like a sort of grown-up Sugar Chile Robinson. 

Edited 15 hours ago by Big Beat Steve

[JSngry]

 

[Gheorghe]

On 8/3/2004 at 6:39 PM, LarryCurleyMoe said:

I can also recommend his work on SAVOY - 1 or 2 cds out - great stuff! R&B flavored jazz with stings, horns, ...I think cecil Payne on bari sax...also - "Embraceable Yew" with Bird at Birdland! B-)

On my album cover it is written that it is a female singer Chubby Newsome, and that she sounds quite under the weather on it, because she might have had a few....

Anyway, that vocal on Embraceable You sounds horrible to me. It´s only rescued by Bird, Bud and Fats, who has a beautiful sound on it, and it´s a rare item where he plays a ballad. 

[Big Beat Steve]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

On my album cover it is written that it is a female singer Chubby Newsome, and that she sounds quite under the weather on it, because she might have had a few....

Anyway, that vocal on Embraceable You sounds horrible to me. It´s only rescued by Bird, Bud and Fats, who has a beautiful sound on it, and it´s a rare item where he plays a ballad. 

Well, supposing we are talking about the Birdland broadcast of 30 June 1950 (date indicated in the Bruyninckx discography), this discography DOES indicate Little Jimmy Scott on that recording of "Embraceable You" that also featured Bird P. and Fats N. but not Bud P. (but Walter Bishop jr.).

"Bird's Diary" by Ken Vail (published in 1996) places this gig that yielded "Embraceable You" with Bird and his cohorts (and Little Jimmy Scott as the vocalist - sic!) at 21 May 1950. And again Walter Bishop jr. on piano.

But the "Bird Lore" discography by Koster and Mobach (published in 2002, i.e. more recelty than the most recent Buryninckx) not only gives 15 or 16 May 1950 as the date but also says "probably" the vocalist was "either Chubby Newsome or Little Jimmy Scott". 

The Discogs page of the "One Night In Birdland" LP on CBS has the following comment: "The track D2 (Embrayceabole You) is wrongly credited to have been sung by Chubby Newsome, but it was Jimmy Scott who actually did it." And here the date again is 15/16 May 1950. 

So which is which now?

The liner notes to the Chubby Newsome LP on Official ("The Original Hip Shakin' Mama"), BTW, do not mention any live appearances of hers with Charlie Parker.