Work Song-Performed by Oscar Brown, Jr & Oscar Brown, III

Описание: On October 10, 2019 the family of Oscar Brown, Jr. launched the Official YouTube Channel dedicated to his music and artistic legacy.
Known for his groundbreaking album *Sin & Soul*, Brown performs classics like 'But I Was Cool,' 'Work Song,' and 'Dat Dere' live. Don’t miss his rendition of the iconic 'Signifyin’ Monkey.'

His Ed Sullivan performance highlights why Oscar Brown Jr. remains a legendary voice in jazz and spoken word, paving the way for future generations of artists, including button poetry pioneers."

In 2018 An Artists Residency was developed for Maggie Brown and Africa Brown to work as community partners at the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts. This served as a beacon for the activities and discoveries centered around the Oscar Brown, Jr. The Oscar Brown Archive Project (OBJAP) ran from 2018 and is presently being concluded and the sisters work together performing and raising awareness of their iconic father.

Oscar Brown, Jr & Oscar Brown, III, are compelling performing their two-man-show: IT’S ABOUT TIME.
A scheduled performance where the piano player didn’t show up, resulted in the dynamic duo discovering they can do it with just themselves and a metronome. They went on to perform ITS ABOUT TIME at the Lincoln Center (NYC) and several other venues, before the untimely death of Oscar, III.

This song is a jazz standard by Nat and Cannonball Adderly, to which Oscar Brown, Jr. set this lyric, after Nat told him the song was inspired by something they’d seen as small boys growing up in Florida; men working on a chain gang. They entitled it Work Song.
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