Jimmy Scott - Over the Rainbow (2001)

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Artist: Jimmy Scott
Title: Over the Rainbow
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Milestone[MCD-9314-2]
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 56:29
Total Size: 316 MB(+3%) | 133 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Pennies From Heaven 3:18
2. Over The Rainbow 3:48
3. All Or Nothing At All 5:44
4. Strange Fruit 3:56
5. Don't Take Your Love From Me 5:27
6. Just Friends 5:35
7. P.S. I Love You 4:49
8. Everybody's Somebody's Fool 4:34
9. If You Only Knew 3:19
10. I Got It Bad 5:00
11. I'll Close My Eyes 5:04
12. When Did You Leave Heaven? 5:50

personnel :

Jimmy Scott - Vocals
Joe Beck - Guitar, Alto Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
George Mraz - Double Bass
Grady Tate - Drums
Michael Kanan - Piano
Larry Willis - Piano
Joe Locke - Vibes
Gregoire Maret - Harmonica
Bob Kindred - Tenor Saxophone
Justin Robinson - Alto Saxophone
David "Fathead" Newman - Tenor Saxophone

There have been few 75-year-old vocalists working in any popular music style that sounded as good as Scott did on this session from late 2000, aided by contributions from top players like Joe Beck (guitar) and Grady Tate (drums). Scott loves those sentimental songs, and this set is full of standards in that vein, from the title track and "Pennies From Heaven" to "P.S. I Love You" (the Jenkins-Mercer composition, not the Beatles song) and "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)." For the most part the arrangements are appropriately small-scale, letting Scott's voice hog the foreground and squeeze plenty of nuances from his sad vibrato. "Over the Rainbow" itself suffers from an excessive wash of vibes, but fortunately that's not typical of most of the set, which just does toe the right side of gushing emotion. It is a refreshing change of pace, though, when a trace of somber darkness is introduced on the foreboding, doomy arrangement of "Strange Fruit," which benefits from a guest shot by David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax.~ Richie Unterberger

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