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Sound is low so turn this up a few:"Little" Jimmy Scott - jazz singer - InterviewInterview, August, 1994 by Steven Garbarino"Little" Jimmy Scott isn't so little anymore.The legendary '50s torch singer with the fragile build, soft features, and supernatural feminine voice, the result of a hereditary condition called Kallman's Syndrome, is in the midst of a smoldering comeback. He's just released a new album of ballads and jazz standards entitled Dream (Sire/Warner Bros./Blue Horizon), the follow-up to his Grammy-nominated release All the Way (1992), and this month the sixty-nine-year-old singer is playing a series of shows at New York's Tavern on the Green. An evening with Jimmy Scott is more than a sentimental journey, it's a trip to the moon and beyond, a kind of out-of-body experience for both singer and audience.STEVEN GARBARINO: You're basically doing what you've always done. So why were you suddenly rediscovered?JIMMY SCOTT: Not long ago, you couldn't even find my records in stores. Some people thought I was dead. Today the climate is friendlier for singers like me and Tony Bennett, who I opened for last month and Johnny Cash: troubadours who have been in the business for years and have the stamina and the growth to survive. I think young listeners are in awe of us because they've never sat down and really concentrated on the art of the music. They've been too wrapped up in the boom-boom and the bam-bam of a lot of today's music. Dig? And now their tastes are maturing, and they're looking for something else.Read the whole interview at "findarticles.com":http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n8_v24/ai_15667455
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