All the Way

Jimmy Scott | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 30, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sire
• ASIN: B000002LU7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,179 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You keep hearing it, January 15, 2000

By 

Alan J. Kushnir (Woodside, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All the Way (Audio CD)

We saw Jimmy Scott at Yoshi's Dec 99 in a guest appearance with Jimmy Mcgriff and Hank Crawford. I never heard of Jimmy Scott, and to tell the truth, was slightly uncomfortable during the performance. This was not like anything I had ever heard before, and its not often that you see an artist so totally involved with the presentation - not just going through the motions or putting on a show. But I kept hearing the singing. We purchased ALL THE WAY on the way out of Yoshi's , and have listened to it often. Sinatra does a classic ALL THE WAY, and it took me a couple of listenings to fully appreciate Scott's version. Its totally unique and affecting. Get the CD and listen to it through at least 3 times ... you'll keep coming back for more.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unsung American Master, February 13, 1999

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David Baker ([e-mail] (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All the Way (Audio CD)

Jimmy Scott, this superlative singer is an unsung American Master. His distinctive voice--high and crystalline--is freighted with emotion unlike any singer I have heard. Many of us are lazy listeners of lyrics, but Mr. Scott's evocative interpretations of American popular ballads so engross the listener that he has us hanging on to every word. His renderings are invested with a longing and a melancholy of a life lived on the hard side. It is true that Mr. Scott is an emotive singer, but he is also a singer of high sophistication. I first came across Jimmy Scott when he was appearing at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The reviews were glowing, but what struck me was that here was this artist with a superb talent who had traveled a very rocky road. However, his travails infuse his talent and what results is incomparable. On "All the Way," Mr. Scott is accompanied by estimable jazz musicians, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Grady Tate, guitarist John Pisano, and saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman. Five stars doesn't get it; "All the Way" is off the charts.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Jimmy Scott, February 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All the Way (Audio CD)

Listen closely to this amazing vocalist, and I dare your musical soul not be both exhilerated and smoothly relaxed at the same time! Hidden and/or unrecognized for decades (at least to this listener, who, by chance heard him in 1995.) "All The Way" played on my auto stereo for nearly a year....a two hour commute each way. Just Jimmy Scott. Each word/lyric...so filled with his distinctive soulful yearning, pleading, love. This is not just singing/vocalizing. This is the love and joy and angst of life somehow captured in the voice of a man, who...if you let him...reaches clear to your toes. I dare you not to sing along with him, throwing the opening lyrics of "At Last" as far as you can, or visualizing someone from the past as you "accompany him" with "Everytime We Say Goodbye". And...each time you listen to Jimmy....he sounds brand new, all over again.