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
Fourteen years ago I was living in Minneapolis. Driving home, listening to the radio, I heard such a stunning female jazz vocalist rendition of "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" that I pulled over to listen closely to the song. After it ended the DJ said "I still can't believe that's Little Jimmy Scott. That's Little Jimmy Scott!" I couldn't believe it either. About a week before ...