In world of funk and soul jazz, he has been a household name since the early 1970s. At the time, keyboardist and flutist Brian Jackson was the musical right hand of jazz and soul poet
Gil Scott-Heron. With his crisp and rippling electric piano playing, he laid the funky groundwork for Scott-Heron's orations. Music that made words swing. Jackson's solo work is sporadic, though he got a starring role
… on the 2021 album Jazz Is Dead Vol.8. Producer Daniel Collás (Phenomenal Handclap Band) also recorded Jackson as an influential 1970s artist, with electric piano and warm-sounding flute against a bare-bones swinging soul jazz accompaniment. In the process, Jackson is not an undeserving singer on this analog and vintage-sounding album. (MR)more
