Jimmy Scott, Iconic Jazz Stylist, Dead at 88 The beloved jazz singer, who passed away on June 12, 2014, at the age of 89, had an up-and-down career that began with Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra in the late 1940s and lasted well into the current century. Over the years, illustrio...
Jimmy Scott.Leon Morris/Redferns I first heard the great jazz singerJimmy Scottas a boy, in 1952. My truck-driver dad took me along on a pretzel delivery to a bar in Newark, New Jersey, where Scott was performing. His voice, awash with mystery and pain, mesmerized me. I heard S...
The article discusses the death of jazz singer Jimmy Scott as of June 28, 2014 and the unreleased recording of a duet of the song "Over the Rainbow," which he sang and recorded with superfan Storm Gardner during their visit in Scott's Las Vegas, Nevada home.Halperin...
简介:by Dan LeRoyVocal jazz legend Jimmy Scott's amazing 1992 comeback, after decades of obscurity, All the Way, was rapturously received by critics and fans, but proved unprofitable for his record label. For the follow-up, Sire authorized a much smaller budget, sending the singer into the...
by Scott YanowAn excellent guitarist with a soulful sound and the ability to uplift any funky jazz date, Jimmy Ponder has appeared on many recordings during his long career, over 80 as a sideman and ...
by Bob Porter, Scott Yanow & Al CampbellOne of the great blues singers of the post-World War II period, Jimmy Witherspoon was also versatile enough to fit comfortably into the jazz world. Witherspoon...
At the same time there was a singer/harmonica player by the name of Tom Moore, who started a band called the Five Careless Lovers, which both Jimmy and I played in together for a short period of time, before my dear departed friend Scott Corey took my place in that band. Even though...
Carol Scott was female vocalist in 1948, with the band going through another reorganization that year. Dorsey kept busy with movie work during the summer. MGM dropped the orchestra in early 1948, and Jimmy didn’t sign with an...
AC/DC (1980):AC/DC's powerhouse tribute to their late singer Bon Scott doubles as a declaration of purpose. With new singer Brian Johnson leading the charge, the group delivered their best album (about sex, death and, um, sex), and suddenly found themselves as one of the planet's bigg...
Ultimately, his jazz technique didn’t mesh with the group’s harder aspirations. Hinch was dismissed from the group prior to their second LP. Phil Naro Paul Natkin, Getty Images Phil Naro Best known as the singer in Billy Sheehan's early band Talas, Phil Naro died in May at the age ...