Yes, It's a Man

I smile as I write that subject heading, remembering my friend who is a musician and a rather boyish-looking female. She will often say from stage, "Yeah --- it's a girl."The New York Times has said of Jimmy Scott:"The jazz singer with the high, ethereal voice has had a rough-hewed career. Now, with fans like Lou Reed and Madonna, he may finally have the kind of success that has eluded him for more than 50 years." The following passage is from the Daily OM --- you can see all of the review of the album at www.dailyom.com."The voice that pours out of All the Way can turn a simple lyric into a profound emotional expression just by pressing a little harder on a note or offering a slight waver of pitch. It’s a dusky alto voice that shares its raw emotionalism with the great female jazz singers of our time. Yet that voice belongs to a man, jazz vocalist “Little” Jimmy Scott. Born with a rare genetic condition that kept him from going through puberty, Scott stopped growing before he was five feet tall and his voice never dropped beyond a boy soprano register. There is no mistaking the passion and depth of experience that flows from Scott on All the Way, an album of nocturnal jazz ballads recorded when Scott was in his mid-sixties. Accompanied by some of the finest musicians in straight-ahead jazz, the pint-size Scott shines in a big way. "http://www.jimmyscottofficialwebsite.org/homepage.htmYou can also get a good look at Jimmy here:http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/jimmyscott/#and here (good interview):http://www.allaboutjazz.com/iviews/jscott.htm