Faith In Time
The Life Of Jimmy Scott
Born in Cleveland in 1925, Little Jimmy Scott lost his mother at age thirteen, the same year he was diagnosed with Kallman's syndrome. The disease stunted his growth and earned him his nickname, but it also left him with a haunting voice, a mesmerizing voice. He soon built a following as a singer touring with Lionel Hampton's great orchestra in the '40s, then performed with many of the stars of the '50s, from Lester Young to Charlie Parker to Dinah Washington, and was signed by Savoy Records. He thought he had his big break when, in 1962, Ray Charles produced what was by all accounts Jimmy's best work, Falling in Love Is Wonderful. But when i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7867-4989-8
- EAN: 9780786749898
- Produktnummer: 22913247
- Verlag: Hachette Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'488 KB
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David Ritz is a Grammy Award winner and the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award. He won the 2013 ASCAP Award for outstanding musical bio for When I Left Home, written with Buddy Guy. He has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Etta James, Janet Jackson, and Smokey Robinson, and is the co-composer of Sexual Healing. Ritz lives in Los Angeles, California.
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