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Paul Jackson

Black Octopus (LITA EXCLUSIVE)
LP Black $15 $22
LP Clear $25
  • NO SALES TO JAPAN
  • Rare Jazz-Funk album from 1978 by Headhunters founding bassist
  • Featuring an all-star line-up including Herbie Hancock
  • Originally released in 1978 on Tobisha EMI Japan
  • First vinyl reissue outside of Japan released in collab w/Totown Records Executive Producer, Malcolm W. Adams
  • Comes with double side insert
  • 180g CLEAR vinyl limited to 100 copies (LITA Exclusive)
  • 180g BLACK vinyl limited to 500 copies (w/obi strip)

Description

Paul Jackson (born in Oakland, California in 1947) needs little introduction. Paul began playing bass at the age of nine and was considered by many of his teachers to be a musical prodigy. Jackson was known as a “Musician’s Musician” and shaped a sound that launched a new direction in contemporary music: the so-called ‘Pulse Playing’, a trademark sound of close-meshed funk grooves combined with sensational rhythms. With this innovative approach, he influenced entire generations of jazz and funk musicians to come. Paul’s compositions were sampled by big acts from the likes of Prince, TLC, Mobb Deep and NWA…just to name a few.

Paul Jackson was a founding member of the Headhunters under Herbie Hancock (THE group responsible for their ground-breaking fusion and jazz-funk compositions that took the world by storm in the 70’s). The solid union between Hancock and Jackson has been...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Black Octopus Part 1 - Many Directions
  • 2 Black Octopus Part 2 - Eight Ways of Love
  • 3 Funk Times Three
  • 4 Burning in the Heat (of Your Love)
  • 5 Tiptoe Thru the Ghetto