{"product_id":"brian-jackson-this-is-brian-jackson","title":"Brian Jackson - This Is Brian Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendary American musician Brian Jackson announces his first solo album in over 20 years,\n‘This Is Brian Jackson’, produced by Phenomenal Handclap Band founder Daniel Collás and\nreleased on BBE Music.\nBrian Jackson earned mythic status among music fans thanks to his pioneering work with Gil\nScott-Heron in the 70’s, where his flute and electric piano performances on ‘Pieces of a Man’\nand ‘Winter In America’ virtually defined the sound of an era. From the 80s onwards he went\non to record with Kool \u0026amp; The Gang, Will Downing (whose debut album he produced), Roy\nAyers and Gwen Guthrie among many others, and while many veteran musicians tend to\nstick with the sounds they know best at some point in their careers, Jackson remains an\nunusually adventurous, vital and broad-minded artist to this day.\nWhen the Phenomenal Handclap Band’s Daniel Collás first met Brian Jackson at a\nperformance in New York, right off the bat he said “I think I could produce you”. “I wasn’t\nsure why he thought that,” says Jackson “but I considered it a challenge to find out. Turns\nout that he was right.”\nEarly on in their friendship, Brian mentioned that he’d embarked on a solo project right\naround the time he recorded ‘Bridges’ with Gil Scott-Heron in 1976. There were even some\nunfinished demos, but the album had never materialised. Daniel leapt on the idea, asking\n“what would a Brian Jackson album sound like if the 21st century Brian were to complete\nthat 1976 album today?” Completed in a series of twice weekly sessions over 11 months in\nDaniel’s Williamsburg studio, ‘This Is Brian Jackson’ provides the answer.\n“We sketched out musical ideas, drank way too much coffee, consumed way too many\ntacos and sampled perhaps a few too many exotic whiskeys while talking about things that\nwere important to both of us personally. The lyrics for the songs are a result of those\nconversations” says Jackson.\nContributors to the album range from Jackson’s guitarist, bassist and longtime friend Binky\nBrice (Billy Ocean, Evelyn Champagne King, Roy Ayers), Collás’s occasional writing partner\nMorgan Phalen, Latin Grammy-winning flautist Domenica Fossati, drummers Moussa Fadera\nand Caito Sanchez, and Phenomenal Handclap Bandmates Juliet Swango and Monika\nHeidemann.\nAnd the music? Vintage, soul-stirring Brian Jackson, with the great man’s warm vocals,\ndistinctive flute and lyrical keys taking centre stage. The songwriting feels timeless, the\narrangement effortless, the production human and analogue. From golden-era soul-funk\nopener ‘All Talk’, through soaring Afrobeat-inspired dreamscape ‘Mami Wata’ to compact\ngroover ‘Little Orphan Boy’ which closes the album, ‘This Is Brian Jackson’ is simply some of\nthe veteran artist’s best work yet, subtly and lovingly framed by Daniel Collás.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BBE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40654343798843,"sku":"W32 - 2022","price":41.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0259\/9403\/5259\/products\/ODktMjgxMC5qcGVn.jpg?v=1659792276","url":"https:\/\/3345.nl\/products\/brian-jackson-this-is-brian-jackson","provider":"3345 Record Store The Hague","version":"1.0","type":"link"}