Artist: Little Jimmy Scott
Album: Very Truly Yours
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Savoy Jazz/Columbia
Released: 1955/2005
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. Time on My Hands (Youmans-Adamson-Gordon) - 2:42
02. Imagination (Van Heusen-Burke) - 2:52
03. When Did You Leave Heaven (Bullock-Whiting) - 3:19
04. Everybody Needs Somebody (Biggs-Madison-McCoy) - 2:33
05. Why Don't You Open Your Heart (Kanderes) - 2:36
06. Guilty (Kahn-Akst-Whiting) - 3:13
07. Don't Cry Baby (Franklin-Jones) - 2:10
08. Street of Dreams (Lewis-Young) - 2:35
09. Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin) - 2:26
10. The Show Goes On (Roth) - 3:12
11. Very Truly Yours (McCoy-Singleton) - 2:19
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Released in 1955, Very Truly Yours was the first album that Jimmy Scott recorded for the Savoy label. After spending the better part of a decade singing in ensembles, first with Lionel Hampton and then with New Orleans bandleader Paul Gayten, Scott was poised to make a name for himself as a solo artist. These dozen songs, executed with a small jazz combo supporting him (including Charles Mingus on bass), find Scott in beautiful voice, confidently investing himself in well-chosen covers as well as some of his own great originals. From the opening number ("Imagination"), it's clear that you're hearing a rare and expressive voice. Here he sounds every bit as romantic and inventive as he continued to be decades later.