Name: Pieces Of A Man
Brand: Gil Scott-Heron

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HIQLP07

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

UK Import. 180 Gram Pressing

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-09-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

029667001618

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Gil Scott-Heron

Genre US

60s & 70s Soul & Funk

Label US

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Gil Scott-Heron’s Pieces Of A Man is one of the most important albums in the history of black American music. Although it didn’t set the charts alight, it stands as a masterpiece alongside contemporary works such as Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Curtis Mayfield’s debut LP, Funkadelic's Maggot Brain and Isaac Hayes’ Shaft. All were brilliant in their way, but lyrically Scott-Heron was on a different level from almost every other writer. Pieces Of A Man was contemporary music performed by great jazz players, directed and prompted by Scott-Heron and his collaborator Brian Jackson, who at the time was not yet 20 years

The album features many of Gil's most important early songs including Home Is Where The Hatred Is, Lady Day and John Coltrane and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Backed by some of New York's finest session musicians including Bernard Purdie, Hubert Laws and Ron Carter, it is one of the great albums of black American music.

Pieces Of A Man

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