Moving Target (Gil Scott-Heron album)

Moving Target is a studio album by American spoken-word poet and blues musician Gil Scott-Heron.

Contents
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 * 1 Background, production, release
 * 2 Tracklist
 * 3 Personnel
 * 3.1 Technical personnel
 * 4 References

Background, production, release[edit]
The album, released on Arista in 1982, was to be his last for more than a decade. On Moving Target, Scott-Heron and his "Midnight Band" recorded their "typical, tastefully jazzy R&B and funk grooves", though flavored with "more exotic sounds" and influenced by reggae (there are echoes of Bob Marley in some songs). The final song, the almost ten-minute long "Black History/The World", is in part a spoken-word performance by Scott-Heron ending with a "plea for peace and world change".[1]

The album, co-produced by Malcolm Cecil,[2] was released in September 1982 on LP (#204921), and issued as a CD in February 1997, under the same number.[3] Robert Christgau gave the album a B.[2]

Tracklist[edit]

 * 1) "Fast Lane" - 4:55
 * 2) "Washington D.C." - 4:13
 * 3) "No Exit" - 4:08
 * 4) "Blue Collar" - 5:18
 * 5) "Ready or Not" - 4:10
 * 6) "Explanations" - 4:33
 * 7) "Black History/The World" - 9:42

Personnel[edit]

 * Gil Scott-Heron - vocals
 * Vernon James - alto saxophone
 * Robert Gordon - bass
 * Kenny Powell - drums
 * Ed Brady - guitar
 * Glen Turner - keyboards
 * Carl Cornwell - tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 7)
 * Ron Holloway - tenor saxophone
 * Kenny Sheffield - trumpet
 * Larry MacDonald - percussion

Technical personnel[edit]

 * Malcolm Cecil - engineer, co-producer
 * Alan Douglas - second engineer
 * Richard Mannering - second engineer
 * Denis Heron - coordinator, production assistant
 * Bob Carboni - mastering
 * Donn Davenport - artwork
 * John Ford - photography


 * Recorded at Bias Studio, Springfield, Virginia (March 25-27 and May 28-29, 1982); Townhouse Studios, London (April 9-12, 1982); The Manor Studio, Oxford (April 19-21, 1982); and Record Plant, Los Angeles (June 7-17, 1982). Mixed at Record Plant. Mastered at A&M Studios, Los Angeles (July 1982).