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GIL SCOTT HERON PIECES OF A MAN
Label Flying Dutchman
Original Year 1971
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Gil Scott-Heron's debut album presented a groundbreaking young poet of the streets, prefiguring hip-hop and bearing few precedents. While that record focused on vocal recitations and percussion, though, Scott-Heron's second album, Pieces Of A Man, brought things to another level. Here Scott-Heron emerges as an affecting singer and melodist. With his musical aide-de-camp Brian Jackson, he proffers fully fleshed-out musical arrangements that encompass blues, jazz, and R&B. The striking ballad "Lady Day and John Coltrane" makes a particularly compelling case for Scott-Heron and Jackson's jazzier inclinations. At the same time, Scott-Heron's urgent proto-rapping is still present, as is his powerful social message, most notably on the rabble-rousing "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," which would become one of his signature songs. While his first album was an unforgettable bolt from the blue, Pieces Of A Man is where Scott-Heron truly came into his own.

Tracklist
1 Revolution Will Not Be Televised 5:03
2 Save the Children 7:02
3 Lady Day and John Coltrane 5:32
4 Home Is Where the Hatred Is 5:
5 When You Are Who You Are 5:
6 I Think I'll Call It Morning 5:
7 Pieces of a Man 7:39
8 Sign of the Ages 6:41
9 Or Down You Fall 5:12
10 Needle's Eye 7:
11 Prisoner 15:25

Recorded on April 19 & 20, 1971.



Personnel: Gil Scott-Heron (vocals); Johnny Pale (conductor); Hubert Laws (saxophone, flute); Brian Jackson (acoustic & electric pianos); Burt Jones (electric guitar); Ron Carter (acoustic & electric basses); Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums).