https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kYix5_bxBCzb39IzSaJ6GT6uTV2MQuCpo

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

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.
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Info dystrybutora:
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.