Jimmy Scott w/Joey DeFrancesco, Kenny Barron, Peter Erskine: I Go Back Home - A Story About Hoping And Dreaming

Wokalistyka jazzowa
premiera polska: 2023-03-24
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
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Każdy ma jakieś marzenia, ikoniczny wokalista Jimmy Scott, spopularyzowany dzięki Davidowi Lynchowi, który na przełomie 80/90 lat zaprosił go do współpracy przy realizacji "Twin Peaks", przez lata marzył o nagraniu płyty z zaproszonymi do studia cenionymi przez niego gośćmi. Ten Dream Team Scotta to hammondzista Joey DeFrancesco, pianista Kenny Barron, perkusista Peter Erskine, basista Michael Valerio, gitarzyści Oscar Castro Neves, John Pisaro, harmonijkarz Gregoire Maret, trębacze Arturo Sandoval i Till Broenner, saksofoniści James Moody i Bob Mintzer, wokaliści Joe Pesci, Ranee Olstead, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Monica Mancini. Te nazwiska robią wrażenie.
Wybrane na tę okazję jazzowe standardy niosą przejmującą, emocjonalną opowieść od "Motherless Child" i "How Deep Is The Ocean" po "Love Letters", "I Remember You", "Poor Butterfly" oraz jego szlagier "Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool". Wysokiego, sopranowego głosu Scotta, który był efektem rzadkiej choroby genetycznej, syndromu Kallmanna (nie przeszedł mutacji) nie sposób zapomnieć. W trakcie nagrywania tej płyty, której premiery nie doczekał (zmarł w 2014 roku, przed jej wydaniem), był już schorowany. Ale ta kruchość towarzyszyła jemu przez całe życie. Przekraczając fizyczne bariery wydobywał emocje niemal nie do zniesienia.
„I Go Back Home - A Story About Hoping And Dreaming” to wspaniałe pożegnanie Jimmy'ego Scotta z ziemskim padołem.
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Editor's Info
Time was rarely on singer Jimmy Scott’s side. He launched a promising career in the early 1950s but saw it go dormant in the 60s. He experienced a comeback in the early 90s but was on death’s door by the time he recorded these collaborations. And he died in 2014, before the release of the documentary I Go Back Home, which yielded these 12 stirring tracks. Scott was in failing health when producer Ralf Kemper paired him with Joey DeFrancesco, Kenny Barron, Oscar Castro-Neves, James Moody, Dee Dee Bridgewater, the HDR Studio Symphony Orchestra, and others. But frailty was something Scott transcended all his life to wrench almost unbearable emotions from just about any song. He somehow rose to the occasion ten times here (two performances are tributes by other singers), bringing fathomless vulnerability, wisdom, and beauty to lushly arranged versions of such staples as “Motherless Child,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “For Once in My Life,” and “Everybody Is Somebody’s Fool.” His idiosyncratic vibrato, note bending, and beat dragging may not be to everyone’s taste, but open your ears the way he opened his heart, and Scott will own you like he does these songs.

All About Jazz * * * * 1/2
Sadness naturally hovers like a black cloud over life's December days, but hope and joy can often find a way to peak through the overcast skies. That's a message that comes through most clearly on Jimmy Scott's beautiful parting gift to the world.
I Go Back Home manages to serve as swan song, celebration, tribute, soiree, and soundtrack all at once. It brings Scott into contact with an incredible array of musicians while showcasing his inimitable voice—a tender, high-pitched instrument born of Kallman syndrome, shaped by life's strange cruelties and bounties, and guided by sincerity.
The playlist and credits make this read like a duets album, with featured guests and singing partners coming and going from track to track, but the tackiness and blatant commercialism that often come with that category of release is never present here. This one is classy all the way through. The best of the best back Scott, providing downy support for his voice without ever drawing much attention away from it, and the resultant music is magnetic.
The album opens on Scott's sorrowful take on "Motherless Child," made all the more poignant when you consider the fact that Scott lost his own mother during his childhood. Organist Joey DeFrancesco, who appears on multiple tracks, is billed as the featured guest, but don't expect the organ showman who comes with guns blazing. Instead, DeFrancesco serves as the bearer of bluesy touches. That song is followed by "The Nearness Of You," ushered in by a lush introduction from the HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra. Joe Pesci, whose own Scott-esque voice was a marvel to behold on DeFrancesco's Falling In Love Again (Concord Jazz, 2003), joins his idol for a performance that shifts from gentle beauty to slow flow swing.
As the album continues, one treasure after another emerges. There's a bossa-based take on "Love Letters," graced by Oscar Castro-Neves' voice and guitar; there's a moving "How Deep Is The Ocean," deepened and broadened by Till Brönner's trumpet; there's a balladic take on "For Once In My Life" that pairs Scott with vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and features Bob Mintzer's tenor saxophone; and there's a beautiful return to the past with "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," a performance that has the late James Moody along for the ride. Scott's voice, on each and every one of those pieces, hits you straight in the heart, serving as a firm reminder that sensitivity and expressiveness are the greatest strength's to be had in the vocal arts.
In addition to those highlights and the rest of Scott's performances, two tribute tracks without him sit in the mix. The first is a Brazilian-based "I Remember You" expertly rendered by vocalist Monica Mancini and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, with sensitive yet buoyant backing from Castro-Neves, bassist Michael Valerio, drummer Peter Erskine, and the orchestra. The second, a moving performance of "The Folks Who Live On The Hill" that rests in the penultimate position, finds Pesci walking in Scott's shoes and shadow. Neither one feels out of place here, despite Scott's absence.
I Go Back Home is a musical triumph by any measure, made all the more impressive by the facts surrounding its creation. It's the product of a dream brought to life and it's an album that exists against all odds. Several years before Scott's death, producer Ralf Kemper put his all—money, time, spirit, and self—into the idea of making his ideal record with and for Jimmy Scott. Reality, however, intervened. When Kemper connected with Scott, his state of being—wheelchair bound and lacking in good health—nearly derailed the dream. And then there were the difficulties on the financial end and a fruitless search for an interested label to contend with. But Kemper would not be deterred, and the world is all the better for his persistence and Scott's resilience. The full story, for those interested in seeing it, comes to life in director Yoon-ha Chang's documentary detailing the making of the album.
We've often been told that every great fighter has one last fight left in them, and that statement rings true with this one. Jimmy Scott, the quiet fighter who projected the passion of a thousand suns, gives us one more for the ages with I Go Back Home.
By Dan Bilawsky

muzycy:
Jimmy Scott: vocals
Dee Dee Bridgewater: vocal
Joey DeFrancesco: organ (1, 3, 4, 10, 11)
Kenny Barron: piano (1, 2, 5-8, 11, 12)
Martin Gjakonovski: bass (1)
Hans Dekker: drums (1)
Joe Pesci: vocals (2, 11)
Michael Valerio: bass (2-12)
Peter Erskine: drums (2-12)
Oscar Castro- Neves: vocals (3), guitar (3, 6, 9)
Gregoire Maret: harmonica (3, 4, 12)
John Pisano: guitar (4)
Renee Olstead: vocals (5)
Till Brönner: trumpet (7)
Bob Mintzer: tenor saxophone (8)
Monica Mancini: vocals (9)
Arturo Sandoval: trumpet (9)
James Moody: saxophone (10)
HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra


utwory:
Motherless Child
The Nearness Of You
Love Letters
Easy Living
Someone To Watch Over Me
How Deep Is The Ocean
If I Ever Lost You
For Once In My Life
I Remember You
Everybody Is Somebody's Fool
Folks Who Live On The Hill
Poor Butterfly

wydano: Mar 24, 2023