It's Your World

Infobox Album
Name = It's Your World
Type = album
Artist = Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson


Released = November 1976
Recorded = July 1–4, 1976
St. Paul's Mall
(Boston, Massachusetts)
Electric Lady Studios
(New York, New York)
American Star Studios
(Merrifield, Virginia)
Genre = Soul, jazz poetry, proto-rap
Length =
Label = Arista
AL-5001
Producer = Perpis-Fall Music, Inc.
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxfixqu5ldfe link]
*Review-Christgau|A-|artist=3661
*PopMatters (favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/scottherongil-its.shtml link]
Last album = "From South Africa to South Carolina" (1975)
This album = "It's Your World"
(1976)
Next album = "Bridges"
(1977)

"It's Your World" is a double album by soul poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson, released in November of 1976 on Arista Records. [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/362821 Discogs: It's Your World] . Discogs. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.] Recording sessions for the album took place in studio and live in July of 1976 at St. Paul's Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and American Star Studios in Merrifield, Virginia. [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/534399 Discogs: It's Your World (1994 CD)] . Discogs. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.] "It's Your World" was originally released on vinyl and was later re-released in 2000 on compact disc by Scott-Heron's Rumal-Gia label.

Track listing

"All songs written by Gil Scott-Heron."

ide one

#"It's Your World" - 3:52
#"Possum Slim" - 6:00
#"New York City" - 4:45

ide two

#"17th Street" - 5:45
#"Tomorrow's Trane" - 7:20
#"Must Be Something" - 5:20

ide three

#"Home Is Where The Hatred Is" - 12:10
#"Bicentennial Blues" - 8:40

ide four

#"The Bottle" - 13:30
#"Sharing" - 5:55

Personnel

*Gil Scott-Heron - Vocals, Electric Piano
*Brian Jackson - Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer, Flute, Vocals
*Danny Bowens - Electric Bass, Vocals
*Victor Brown - Vocals, (solo on "Sharing")
*Bilal Sunni Ali - Tenor Sax, Flute
*Barnett Williams - Congos, (solo on ("The Bottle"), Percussion
*Tony Duncanson - Congos, Bongos, Timbales (solo on "The Bottle")
*Reggie Brisbane - Drums (traps), Percussion
*Delbert Taylor - Trumpet
*Malcolm Cecil - Remastering

References

External links

* [http://www.gilscottheron.com/lnworld.htm Album liner notes at Scott-Heron website]