Gary Bartz – Another Earth
An essential album from the great Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Bridges is the first from the duo to feature production assistance and synthesizer programming from Malcolm Cecil and his massive TONTO synthesizer. Like their previous efforts, Brian Jackson’s gorgeous Rhodes chords provide the foundation, but here, TONTO adds to the atmosphere with varied electronic textures and futuristic bubbling tones and bass lines. Scott-Heron delivers, as always, with some of his best lines about various topics including the 1966 nuclear meltdown near Detroit, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, revolution, and the struggle to get by…
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Political / Soul-jazz
Tracklist:
1 Hello Sunday! Hello Road!
A2 Song Of The Wind
A3 Racetrack In France
A4 Vidgolia (Deaf, Dumb & Blind)
B1 Under The Hammer
B2 We Almost Lost Detroit
B3 Tuskeegee #626
B4 Delta Man (Where I’m Comin’ From)
B5 95 South (All Of The Places We’ve Been)
Credits:
Art Direction – Myron Polenberg, Steve Feldman (7)
Bass – Danny Bowens (tracks: A4, B2)
Co-producer [Associate Producer] – Larry Fallon, Tom Wilson (2)
Djembe, Congas, Bongos, Shekere, Triangle – Barnett Williams
Drums – Josef Blocker*, Reggie Brisbane (tracks: A1, A4, B2)
Guitar – Fred Payne (tracks: B2), Marlo Henderson
Illustration – Stan Zagorski*
Keyboards – Brian Jackson
Lyrics By – Brian Jackson (tracks: A3, A4, B5), Gil Scott-Heron
Music By – Brian Jackson (tracks: B5), Gil Scott-Heron (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B5)
Piano [Rhythm Piano] – Gil Scott-Heron (tracks: A2, B1, B4)
Producer – Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jackson*
Producer [Production Assistance], Recorded By, Mixed By, Programmed By [Synthesizer Programming] – Malcolm Cecil
Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Bilal Sunni-Ali
Timbales, Percussion – Tony Duncanson
Trumpet – Delbert Taylor
Vocals – Brian Jackson (tracks: B1, B3), Gil Scott-Heron
