Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - Gotta Play
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Artist: Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-HeronEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Music Label: Rmg / Roberts Music
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- Gotta Play
- Kama Sutra
- Moody Too
- Feelin U
- Free 4 Fall
- Interlude #2- Old School Conversation
- Parallel Lean
- Yada Yada
- Outstanding
- Deelushuss
- Num's Interlude
- Fresca Girl
- Feelin U [*]
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Music Review: A must have!
Rating: 4 Stars
I've been a fan of Brian Jackson and more specifically Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson since purchasing on a chance 'From South Africa to South Carolina' as a 15 year old soul/jazz funk fanatic some 25 years ago. I've always felt Gil's work, at least musically, never quite reached the heights of the halcyon days achieved with his key collaborator. Along with the Last Poets, Watts Prophets, Nikki Giovanni and lesser known political poets of the Black Power era (I will avoid the disparaging term 'proto-rappers'), these two musical pioneers very much re-wrote the musical landscape, with their hard-hitting reality prose/song alerting us that America still had(s) some considerable way to go in delivering socio-economic and political justice to its Black populace.
I picked up this album after hearing 'Parellel Lean/Home is Where the Hatred Is' on London's Jazz Fm, which just left me totally mesmerised. Not only does it improve upon the original, with Gil's haunting monologue at the start taking the listener on a drug-laden journey of urban despair, but there's also a sad poignancy empahasised by his own well-documented battle with substance abuse.
As a long-term fan, I've got to say that hearing these two highly gifted talents re-uniting after over 20 years, if regretfully for only one track, is enough to justify purchase of 'Gottta Play'. While 'Parellel Lean' represents the album's undisputed highlight, the rest in no way dissapoints. 'Yada Yada' for one, is an infectious little jazz-funk instrumental jam reminiscent of Lesette Wilson's recent work, smoothesque, but with attitude and feeling in the playing. Simarlarly, the aptly titled downtempo 'Moody Too', takes us on a pleasurable path of sublime cosmic funkiness, with Jackson's electric piano runs giving messrs LL Smith and George Duke a good 'ol run for their money.
Overall, 'Gotta Play' marks an accomplished return from one half of one of the most innovative musical partnerships of the past 3 decades. Now howz about that comeback album with Gil Scott-Heron we've all been waiting for?
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