LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT

jazz singer

“It was an old 45, and you know the funniest thing, the first one I ever bought a record of was Louis Jordan. It wasn’t ‘Caledonia.’ I think it was ‘Saturday Night Fish Fry.’

“He was a hell of an altoist, too, alto saxophonist. Yeah, babe. He came from the depths of the jazz idiom, too, you know. This commercial thing he did with all those songs, that was something else. His depth was that he was a jazz altoist, yeah.”