Out Now! Vision's of Dilla - Won't Do @BBETV

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

BBE Music celebrates 30 years with “Won’t Do”, a stunning big band reimagining of J Dilla’s classic from his final album The Shining.

Arranged and produced by Valtteri Laurell and Teddy Rok, performed by the 17-piece Ricky-Tick Big Band, and featuring flautist Elena Pinderhughes.

Out now via Visions of Dilla on BBE Music.
Listen: orcd.co/wontdo

$Brian Jackson beautiful Dame feat Raquel Ra Brown #jazz #music #newmusic Interlude Beautiful Dame is the first offering from multi-talented poet, writer, artist Raquel Ra Brown, the Beautiful Dame being none other than that elusively definable thing called music. Ra Browns rich, velvet-toned vocal beguilingly lays bare her introspective thoughts on musics primacy in the African-American paradigm. Music is a muse to our dreams, inspired them to play out loud like we live, she informs, That music is that beautiful dame, that debonair dude that coaxed me out of pretty lace words from under where life is always a poem....Music is utterly, devastatingly, divinely the actual sound of life; just listen. Classically trained jazz pianist virtuoso, flautist, songwriter, arranger/producer, musical director and trail blazing creative visionary. Brian Jacksons resume more than speaks for itself; an impressive, musically fruitful trajectory in a career that has spanned well beyond 5 decades. Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City born and raised, a child prodigy with a talent nurtured and molded firmly within Black Americas rich jazz tradition (inspired by such blues, swing, bebop and post-bop greats as Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, John Coltrane); one that would be fine honed in later years by the supernatural-like funk, soul and rock sounds of music contemporaries Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield. As one half of Gil-Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, he would be the music alchemist to his lyrically gifted and charismatic partners prescient, blues-laden observational musings, forged deep in the crucible of the post WWII Black Arts Movement responsible for such literary and performative talents as Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Oscar Brown Jr, Nikki Giovanni, and The Last Poets. Theirs would be a collaborative partnership like no other: a reality truth to power manifesto on politics, culture and everyday life, delivered through song via an equally unapologetic blues, jazz and funk rhythm template. Two modern day griots, embedded firmly in that time-honoured African tradition of disseminating news and sharing information. Now More Than Ever is Brian Jacksons latest offering for BBE Music. It takes up the legacy baton some two years on from where This Is Brian Jackson (his impressive debut for the label) left off. Where This Is comprised unreleased demo material from the duos mid 70s heyday with newer songs that wisely referenced Jacksons funk and jazz heritage, this latest all-new offering pays direct homage to the very songs of that famed partnership. The albums title (taking its cue from the opening chant on Peace Go With You Brother”), is an appreciative nod to the enduring relevance of Jackson and Scott-Herons inspirational gift to the world; songs that are now over 5 decades old, though which speak more than ever before to those major topical issues that afflict our markedly fractured, conflict-ridden and polarised present day world. ... Real Music For Real People, since 1996. Website: https://www.bbemusic.com/ Subscribe to our channel: https://geni.us/BBEtv$

$Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You, Brother feat Raheem DeVaughn Peace Go With You Brother has Wes Felton provide an introductory monologue alongside a low end frequency fender rhodes played by Tosca that begins with the communal clarion call, Now more than ever, all family must be together, every brother every where, feels the time is in the air, common blood flows through common veins. Raheem Devaughn features once again; whose piercing, multi-layered lead and background colourings are perfectly suited for the sombre message ballad. A guitar led, full-bodied 90s hip hop soul arrangement underpins the rhythm section, the Apple Hill String Quartet contributing a tastefiully handled string accompaniment that favourably enhances the songs melancholy mood. Classically trained jazz pianist virtuoso, flautist, songwriter, arranger/producer, musical director and trail blazing creative visionary. Brian Jacksons resume more than speaks for itself; an impressive, musically fruitful trajectory in a career that has spanned well beyond 5 decades. Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City born and raised, a child prodigy with a talent nurtured and molded firmly within Black Americas rich jazz tradition (inspired by such blues, swing, bebop and post-bop greats as Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, John Coltrane); one that would be fine honed in later years by the supernatural-like funk, soul and rock sounds of music contemporaries Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield. As one half of Gil-Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, he would be the music alchemist to his lyrically gifted and charismatic partners prescient, blues-laden observational musings, forged deep in the crucible of the post WWII Black Arts Movement responsible for such literary and performative talents as Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Oscar Brown Jr, Nikki Giovanni, and The Last Poets. Theirs would be a collaborative partnership like no other: a reality truth to power manifesto on politics, culture and everyday life, delivered through song via an equally unapologetic blues, jazz and funk rhythm template. Two modern day griots, embedded firmly in that time-honoured African tradition of disseminating news and sharing information. Now More Than Ever is Brian Jacksons latest offering for BBE Music. It takes up the legacy baton some two years on from where This Is Brian Jackson (his impressive debut for the label) left off. Where This Is comprised unreleased demo material from the duos mid 70s heyday with newer songs that wisely referenced Jacksons funk and jazz heritage, this latest all-new offering pays direct homage to the very songs of that famed partnership. The albums title (taking its cue from the opening chant on Peace Go With You Brother”), is an appreciative nod to the enduring relevance of Jackson and Scott-Herons inspirational gift to the world; songs that are now over 5 decades old, though which speak more than ever before to those major topical issues that afflict our markedly fractured, conflict-ridden and polarised present day world. Globally celebrated dance floor hit makers Masters of Work (Little Louie Vega and Kenny Dope Gonzalez), have been recruited as producers for the project, recorded over a two month period at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City in February and March of 2024, mixed by Dave Darlington and mastered by the legendary Herb Powers Jr. The album boasts an impressive array of Big Apple session talent, among them Nuyorican Soul/Elements of Life alumni - Gene Perez (electric bass), latin jazz virtuosos John Benitez (upright bass) and Luisito Quintero (various percussion), Axel Tosca (keyboards), as well as session guitar stalwarts William Sherrod Barnes, and Clarence Binky Brice. It features a horn section comprising Ivan Renta (sax and flute) and Alex Norris (trumpet), and (one-time Midnight Band member) reedman Carl Cornwell. Backing vocals are exquisitely handled by Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Ramona Dunlap and Dawn Tallman, all four singers individually having carved out successful solo careers. Supplementing the rhythm section, adding mood and ethereal texture to the songs is The Apple Hill String Quartet under the inspired direction of globally revered Harlem, NYC vocalist/pianist/songwriter/arranger/producer Leroy Burgess. ... Real Music For Real People, since 1996. Website: https://www.bbemusic.com/ Subscribe to our channel: https://geni.us/BBEtv$

$Brian Jackson - Madison Avenue feat Raheem DeVaughn Raheem Devaughn returns a final time for Madison Avenue, this time drawing inspiration from the purple-hued funk of Minneapolis, Minnesota, coating the song with a whole alternate feel. Scott-Heron and Jacksons commentary on mass consumerism released on the duos Secrets album is an infectiously uptempo affair; thoughtfully deposited strings complement both singer and rhythm section, and some impressive keyboard solo work from Jackson. Classically trained jazz pianist virtuoso, flautist, songwriter, arranger/producer, musical director and trail blazing creative visionary. Brian Jacksons resume more than speaks for itself; an impressive, musically fruitful trajectory in a career that has spanned well beyond 5 decades. Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City born and raised, a child prodigy with a talent nurtured and molded firmly within Black Americas rich jazz tradition (inspired by such blues, swing, bebop and post-bop greats as Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, John Coltrane); one that would be fine honed in later years by the supernatural-like funk, soul and rock sounds of music contemporaries Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield. As one half of Gil-Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, he would be the music alchemist to his lyrically gifted and charismatic partners prescient, blues-laden observational musings, forged deep in the crucible of the post WWII Black Arts Movement responsible for such literary and performative talents as Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Oscar Brown Jr, Nikki Giovanni, and The Last Poets. Theirs would be a collaborative partnership like no other: a reality truth to power manifesto on politics, culture and everyday life, delivered through song via an equally unapologetic blues, jazz and funk rhythm template. Two modern day griots, embedded firmly in that time-honoured African tradition of disseminating news and sharing information. Now More Than Ever is Brian Jacksons latest offering for BBE Music. It takes up the legacy baton some two years on from where This Is Brian Jackson (his impressive debut for the label) left off. Where This Is comprised unreleased demo material from the duos mid 70s heyday with newer songs that wisely referenced Jacksons funk and jazz heritage, this latest all-new offering pays direct homage to the very songs of that famed partnership. The albums title (taking its cue from the opening chant on Peace Go With You Brother”), is an appreciative nod to the enduring relevance of Jackson and Scott-Herons inspirational gift to the world; songs that are now over 5 decades old, though which speak more than ever before to those major topical issues that afflict our markedly fractured, conflict-ridden and polarised present day world. Globally celebrated dance floor hit makers Masters of Work (Little Louie Vega and Kenny Dope Gonzalez), have been recruited as producers for the project, recorded over a two month period at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City in February and March of 2024, mixed by Dave Darlington and mastered by the legendary Herb Powers Jr. The album boasts an impressive array of Big Apple session talent, among them Nuyorican Soul/Elements of Life alumni - Gene Perez (electric bass), latin jazz virtuosos John Benitez (upright bass) and Luisito Quintero (various percussion), Axel Tosca (keyboards), as well as session guitar stalwarts William Sherrod Barnes, and Clarence Binky Brice. It features a horn section comprising Ivan Renta (sax and flute) and Alex Norris (trumpet), and (one-time Midnight Band member) reedman Carl Cornwell. Backing vocals are exquisitely handled by Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Ramona Dunlap and Dawn Tallman, all four singers individually having carved out successful solo careers. Supplementing the rhythm section, adding mood and ethereal texture to the songs is The Apple Hill String Quartet under the inspired direction of globally revered Harlem, NYC vocalist/pianist/songwriter/arranger/producer Leroy Burgess. ... Real Music For Real People, since 1996. Website: https://www.bbemusic.com/ Subscribe to our channel: https://geni.us/BBEtv$

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