The subtitle of both her albums is Words and Sounds and as she informs those seing her for the first time, maybe two-thirds of the crowd, it's not just about the music: it's also about the talks. A mistake Jill laughing acknowledged when she came out for the encore wearing slippers. The Girlfriend has a keen condescension detector and even forgives Jill the "interesting" high heeled shoes she's wearing. She looks good and there's that sense of vulnerability that can't be faked.
She's so warm-hearted and beams at being here performing for us. There's so much love and good will in the building reciprocating to her. The idea is that of the unassuming girl next door: Jilly From Philly. When she performs live, she aims straight for the heart. Her man is one step above FUBU but is not averse to the bourgeois stylings of Sean John.
It's soul food from cheese steaks to collard greens. She walks down the same gritty Philadephia streets.
There's an urban appeal and refreshing down-to-earth quality to her.
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The Jill Scott aesthetic is interesting: if you've ever seen the movie Love Jones, you'll know all about it. It's a canny way to make sure that the band has woken up and is ready to keep the Sunday night audience moving. It becomes hyperactive dance music and she wails away in the Gloria Gaynor mould to the accelerating beat. After the first chorus, they flip it house style (ala East Coast mix). They start out in church mode with Golden the first single and a welcome radio-friendly return. Still how often does every thinking person's favourite soul sister come to your town? Sadly also, us New Englanders were not be blessed with Common appearing on the same bill, something New Yorkers had enjoyed just days earlier. The dance was a little off especially given that the Boston Ballet is right around the corner and that we in the audience were expecting earthy soul. There is no opening act she starts with a track appropriately called Warm Up in which a dancer brings some urban ballet flavour to the proceedings. She is fresh off winning a Grammy in that category designed for left-of-center artists who won't sell the tens of millions: Cross My Mind won Best Urban/Alternative Performance. She took an extended break from music "to attend to her mariage" but came back in a big way in the past year. As it turned out though there was a whole lot of the first album, Who is Jill Scott?, on display.Īs I've noted previously, I've seen her twice before, first when she was an unknown in a small club and then 9 months later at a prestigious venue where she was pleasantly surpised by the double platinum plaques and critical acclaim that had started coming her way. Ostensibly this was in support of the Beautifully Human album.
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Jill Scott and her crack 13-piece band brought the Big Beautiful tour to Boston last Sunday night. Sunday night at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, March 13 2005.
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