Calling In A Favour

Welcome back to our first episode of “Calling In A Favour” in 2021 – thanks for tuning in. Today’s guest is Brian Jackson, pianist, flautist, and one half of the duo Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. To say it’s a pleasure and an honour having a chance to sit with Mr. Jackson for an in-depth chat would be heavily underselling what we’re feeling right now.

Alongside Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson has recorded a decade’s worth of radical, genre-bending material that still sounds fresh and, even more incredibly, applicable to our times.
“Winter in America,” “The Bottle”, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, “We Almost Lost Detroit” – the list goes on and on.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of “Pieces of a Man,” Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson’s seminal debut album, we called Mr. Jackson up to discuss his life in music and activism, his creative years with Gil and their gradual separation, as well as his current podcasting and recording endeavours.