Arts > Music > Jazz > USA > Jimmy Scott    1925-2014

 Jimmy Scott performing

at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse in 2001.

Credit Jack Vartoogian for The New York Times

Jimmy Scott, Singer Whose Star Rose Late, Dies at 88

By PETER KEEPNEWS    NYT

JUNE 13, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/arts/music/jimmy-scott-singer-whose-star-rose-late-dies-at-88.html

James Victor Scott    1925-2014

jazz singer

whose distinctively  plaintive delivery

and unusually high-pitched voice

earned him a loyal following

and, late in life,

a taste of bona fide stardom

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/arts/music/jimmy-scott-singer-whose-star-rose-late-dies-at-88.html

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