Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

Genres: soul, funk, jazz, political, american

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About Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

Musician and poet Gill Scott-Heron and Brooklyn born composer/producer Brian Jackson extensively worked together for a long period in the 1970s producing in that time 7 albums and various EPs. The collaboration started in 1970 when Jackson began writing songs with a then 20 year old Gil Scott- Heron. Jackson remembers his first encounter with Gil, "He had this way with words and I thought to myself, 'People have to hear this stuff.' What I had to offer was the music and I figured if we can take his words and make this tribal knowledge rhythmic and musical, we can draw people to hear it." Their partnership produced some of the most fiercely poignant, politically charged, and significantly soulful albums of the seventies. Pieces of a Man, Free Will, Winter in America, First Minute of a New Day, From South Africa to South Carolina, Bridges, Secrets and 1980 are coveted by collectors and conscious-minded music fans alike. Tracks like The Bottle, Johannesburg, It's Your World, Angel Dust, Willing, and 95 South (All the Places We've Been), while highly relevant back-in-the-day, have taken on heightened new relevance today by serving as an inspirational and musical Rosetta stone for the neo-soul movement.

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