Celebrating 19 years of 3 Chairs with 19 classic cuts
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19 Jill Scott 'Slowly Surely (Theo Parrish Remix)'
It's not often the world is blessed with an 'electronic' artist able to craft as beautiful music as Theo Parrish. Classics such as 'Summertime Is Here', 'Solitary Flight'... we could imagine that it would shock first-time listeners to know that these songs were not made by a 12-piece orchestra, but one man in a dusty Detroit studio.
Among all of those gems, it's this bootleg of Jill Scott's 'Slowly, Surely' that really brings the tears. A huge fan of Scott, the story goes that Theo threw the tape of this remix on to the stage at one of her performances, only to have it thrown back at him promptly by her manager. Theo continued this back and forth exchange with her (hopefully former) manager until Jill intervened and took the tape home with her. The voice message you hear at the start of the track is her heart-felt response to Theo after giving it a spin, and we couldn't imagine her feeling any other way.
Jill Scott's vocal loops tantalizingly over a pulsing bass that could be mistaken for Theo's own heartbeat as the slow burning number slowly, but surely, caresses emotions we never even knew we had. The bootleg that launched Theo's legendary 'Ugly Edits' series that featured such gems as this Freddie Hubbard edit, it still sounds as crisp today as the first time we heard it.
