For a time in the late 70s Charles “Chuck” Jackson was a hot soul property and tipped for great things. Born in South Carolina in 1945, Jackson got into the music business when he joined Jerry Butler’s famous Chicago writers workshop. There he met up with another aspiring song smith, Marvin Yancy, and the pair promptly established a four piece vocal group as a vehicle for their songs. That group, The Independents, enjoyed some success before surprisingly folding and the Jackson/Yancy team went back to song writing eventually striking gold when they teamed up with Capitol star Natalie Cole for ‘This Will Be’. Capitol was so impressed with that song (and several others) that they signed Jackson as an artist and they had him record two albums. 1978’s ‘Passionate Breezes’ was produced by Yancy and the veteran, Gene Barge and the set is best and rightly remembered for the title song. ‘Passionate Breezes’ is a classic Quiet Storm ballad… indeed it helped define the genre and it still sounds great today. Testament to its beauty is the fact the Dells (who knew a thing or two about decent ballads) cut a version of it too. Other highlights include a medley of Jackson’s own ‘I’m In Heaven’ with Billy Preston’s ‘You Are So Beautiful’. Surprisingly considering Jackson was such an acclaimed writer there’s also a cover of Rod Stewart’s ‘Tonight’s The Night’… odd, but odder is the fact that on the follow up LP, ‘Gonna Getcha Love’ (On the Review list) there’s only one Charles Jackson song, the gently insinuating ‘I Really Want You’. Jackson faded as an artist and went back to writing achieving notable success with songs he pitched at Whitney Houston. Apparently he now lives in comfortable retirement in Los Angeles… yep, those royalties sure provide a decent pension pot!..This album is as soulful as it gets...classy!
AMM
Moxysoulandjazz
The Tasters!
18 comments:
Thanks Moxy and AMM for another interesting review.
Thanks MoxySoulandJazz. And hopefully follow-up LP is reviewed soon.
Already anxious to hear it. Thanks for review, P.
Great review so soulful .
Thank you AMM and MoxySoulandJazz, sounds like a winner.
The tasters sound great. Thanks for the review.
/Jumpstart
Thanks for the review, looking forward to hearing this.
thanks for the review and thanks for the tasters. Thank you Moxysoulandjazz and of course AMM for setting up the platform. Thank you.
AMM And Moxysoulandjazz Thank You Very Much
Nice one,moxy and AMM. He sounds nice.
thanks for this kind overlooked thing Moxy and AMM
Thank you Moxy and AMM for sharing this fine looking album
Reb
Thanks AMM and Moxy great review
In South Africa, The Train was a major hit
Thanks for the review & Moxysoulandjazz & MM.
cheers,ELtel
Great review thanks
Thanks to Moxysoulandjazz and AMM for this great set from chuck allway thought this was a great album
Cheers Pedro
Many thanks,new for me
Thanks a lot for the review mate
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