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- Record Label: Eden River Records
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Mar 2, 2017After starting with a deathly gripping take on Motherless Child, his supernatural countertenor beautifully holds its own over the luminescent backdrops throughout, showing how charisma, soul and delivery score any time over technique. Pure class.
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MojoMar 3, 2017The results are a triumph. Scott interprets everything in a manner that touches heart-strings. [Mar 2017, p.98]
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UncutMar 3, 2017Aged 85 and in grave health, Scott's superlative countertenor was weakening, but his expressive gifts are unerring. [Mar 2017, p.39]
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Mar 2, 2017At his best, he’s always been an absolute singular and transcendent vocalist, among the most powerful, transfixing, transcendent singers of all time. That means even this muddled sort-of tribute, sort-of celebration, sort-of Jimmy Scott album still manages to remind us of that fact, and pull at our heartstrings.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2017Only some odd choices of collaborators--like actor Joe Pesci on The Nearness Of You--mars what could have been a beautiful swansong. [May 2017, p.111]