Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name, I Go Back Home is an album that elicits a range of emotions: wonder, that it was made at all, with the octogenarian Scott being so frail and that impossibly beautiful voice having lost much of its power; joy, in that Scott's inimitable phrasing, exquisite timing and that elusive feeling he conveyed of existential sorrow can still move you to tears; surprise, when actor Joe Pesci's impeccable version of ‘The Folks Who Live on the Hill’, one of two tributes by other singers, proves to be one of the album's standouts. In a touching duet with Scott, ‘The Nearness of You’, it's clear how big an influence Scott has been on Pesci, such is the consanguinity of approach. With gorgeous orchestral charts by Mark Joggerst, which call to mind Scott's 1962 masterpiece, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, the singer revisits favourite repertoire in the very finest company including fellow vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater (‘For Once in My Life’) and Renee Olstead (‘Someone to Watch over Me’), pianist Kenny Barron, who lights up ‘How Deep is the Ocean’ with a corruscating solo, organist Joey DeFrancesco, and, on ‘Love Letters’, the now sadly departed guitarist, Oscar Castro Neves. If Scott's singing is less seraphic, the endless feeling which he pours into songs such as ‘Motherless Child’ will leave no heart unmoved.