Bridges

by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

Bridges cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1977
  • Label: Arista
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:17
  • Community rating: 4.04/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson continued their brilliant collaborative streak with 'Bridges', seamlessly blending sharp political commentary with incredibly smooth, deeply rhythmic jazz-funk instrumentation. The record is wonderfully warm and intensely conscious, offering a highly melodic, beautifully uplifting soul experience without ever blunting the edge of its righteous social critique.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conscious, rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Hello Sunday! Hello Road! (3:37)
  2. Song Of The Wind (3:53)
  3. Racetrack In France (4:15)
  4. Vidgolia (Deaf, Dumb & Blind) (7:41)
  5. Under The Hammer (3:59)
  6. We Almost Lost Detroit (5:19)
  7. Tuskeegee #626 (0:33)
  8. Delta Man (Where I'm Comin' From) (5:45)
  9. 95 South (All Of The Places We've Been) (4:15)

Credits

  • Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - primary artist, producer
  • Myron Polenberg - art direction
  • Steve Feldman - art direction
  • Danny Bowens - bass
  • Larry Fallon - co-producer [associate producer]
  • Tom Wilson - co-producer [associate producer]
  • Barnett Williams - djembe, congas, bongos, shekere, triangle
  • Joe Blocker - drums
  • Reggie Brisbane - drums
  • Fred Payne - guitar
  • Marlo Henderson - guitar
  • Stanislaw Zagorski - illustration
  • Brian Jackson - keyboards, lyrics by, music by, vocals, written-by
  • Gil Scott-Heron - lyrics by, music by, piano [rhythm piano], vocals, written-by
  • Malcolm Cecil - producer [production assistance], recorded by, mixed by, programmed by [synthesizer programming]
  • Bilal Sunni-Ali - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
  • Tony Duncanson - timbales, percussion
  • Delbert Taylor - trumpet

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