#Jimmy Scott

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[joeinct]

Jimmie Scott, Photo by Roy DeCarava, 1956

[ortodelmondo]

Jimmy Scott, 1999 © Richard Dumas

[ciriceart]

“I GOT IDEA, MAN.” — two versions, inspired by Jimmy Scott’s Sycamore Trees. These are not sycamore trees.

[davidhudson]

Jimmy Scott, July 17, 1925 – June 12, 2014.

1956 photo by Roy DeCarava.

[bitter69uk]

Farewell to musician and composer extraordinaire Angelo Badalementi (22 March 1937 – 11 December 2022), who has died aged 85. His soundtracks - typically steeped in ghostly finger-snapping 1950s cool jazz - contributed much to the ambiance of eerie floating dread synonymous with the cinema of David Lynch. From the top of my head, my Badalementi highlights: Isabella Rossellini’s gloomy, tuneless, almost Nico-like rendition of the titular Bobby Vinton song in Blue Velvet (1986). (Pictured: Badalementi himself accompanying Rossellini on piano). The two albums Badalementi and Lynch collaborated on with ethereal chanteuse Julee Cruise (Floating into the Night (1989) and The Voice of Love (1993)). Jazz singer Jimmy Scott’s agonized lament “Sycamore Trees” from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1922). Nina Simone simmering with barely suppressed rage on the Badalementi song “I Hold No Grudge” from her 1967 High Priestess of Soul album. And the somber, wildly underrated record A Secret Life (1995) by gravel-voiced post-punk diva Marianne Faithfull. The man was a genius!

[protoslacker]

When Did You Leave Heaven

Little Jimmy Scott - Topic

Piano: Howard Biggs, Drums: Rudy Nichols, Guitar: Mundell Lowe, Upright  Bass: Charles Mingus, Saxophone: Budd Johnson

I happened on this recording by way of a Tumblr Blast from a  Norman, Oklahoma band Pineapple Willows. They've released a new single, "Rollen."

The lead singer, Dante Frame put up a video on YouTube a couple of years ago a cover of "Holding Back The Years". I was reminded of Jimmy Scott’s renditon and listened to more songs. 

I am always impressed how 'songs can cross borders" and more generally how music defies them. Scott's recording here features Mundell Lowe on guitar. Mundell Lowe was the son of a Baptist minister from Mississippi and yet became a Jazz great.

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The Vivian Maier Show

[ivovynckier]

Angelo Badalamenti composed the song "Sycamore Trees" using David Lynch's lyrics for the jazz singer Jimmy Scott.

(Jimmy Scott is a man with a rare contralto voice, not a woman!)

[steamedtangerine]

Jimmy Scott - Sycamore Trees

  Lyrics by David Lynch/ Music by Angelo Badalamenti

[nicecrumbart]

Keep thinking about that one scene in secret life

[halfsixwakeup]

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