Playlist
Jimmy Scott Essentials
Apple Music Jazz
Tracks: 1563:22
A jazz singer of rare sensitivity, yearning quietly from afar.
Updated Aug 28, 2017
Tracks 15
- 1Spot Classics One6:14
- 2I Go Back Home5:21
- 3Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me3:54
- 4Holding Back the Years5:28
- 5When Love Goes Wrong: Songs For the Broken-Hearted3:11
- 6Heaven4:57
- 7Holding Back the Years4:53
- 8Five Classic Albums (Very Truly Yours / If You Only Knew / The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott / Sin & Soul / Between Heaven & Hell) (Digitally Remastered)3:18
- 9Five Classic Albums (Very Truly Yours / If You Only Knew / The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott / Sin & Soul / Between Heaven & Hell) (Digitally Remastered)3:14
- 10Five Classic Albums (Very Truly Yours / If You Only Knew / The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott / Sin & Soul / Between Heaven & Hell) (Digitally Remastered)3:11
- 11The Savoy Years and More...2:29
- 12Over the Rainbow3:48
- 13The Jazz Singers4:58
- 14But Beautiful5:28
- 15Rain In My Eyes2:51
About this playlist
A jazz singer of rare sensitivity, Jimmy Scott scored his first hit with an eerily open rendition of “Everybody's Somebody's Fool” for bandleader Lionel Hampton in 1949. Hampton nicknamed him “Little Jimmy Scott” due to his limited stature, the result of a genetic disorder that also prevented his young voice from changing. After fading into obscurity, Scott secured a robust '90s comeback thanks in part to singing “Sycamore Trees” on TV's Twin Peaks. His disarming contralto delivery positively quivers with vulnerability on striking ballads like Prince's “Nothing Compares 2 U”, evoking the feeling of yearning quietly from afar.