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Pieces Of A Man (Remaster) (Import) (CD)

By: Gil Scott-Heron (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Pieces Of A Man (Remaster) (Import) (CD) Album By Gil Scott-Heron (Artist)
1   Revolution Will Not Be Televised - (studio)  
2   Save The Children - (studio)  
3   Lady Day And John Coltrane - (studio)  
4   Home Is Where The Hatred Is - (studio)  
5   When You Are Who You Are - (studio)  
6   I Think I'll Call It A Morning - (studio)  
7   Pieces Of A Man - (studio)  
8   Sign Of The Ages - (studio)  
9   Or Down You Fall - (studio)  
10   Needle's Eye - (studio)  
11   Prisoner - (studio)  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (7/20/72, p.52) - "...Here is an album that needs discovering. It's strong, deeply soulful and possessed of that rare and wonderful quality in this time of hollow and obligatory `relevance'..."
Uncut (p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[H]is phrasing is movingly beautiful."

Title Note

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).

Recorded on April 19 & 20, 1971. Includes liner notes by Gil Scott-Heron.

24bit digitally remastered edition of this classic 11-track album with restored original artwork.

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.

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