How Brian Jackson reimagined some of his legendary work with Gil Scott-Heron

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Jackson and Scott-Heron created some of most memorable protest music of the early '70s, through the duo’s combination of jazz, soul, funk and spoken word poetry. Fifty years later, Jackson’s new album, Now More Than Ever...

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