Wall of Soul

摘要

When her debut album, "Who Is Jill Scott?" hit the music racks last July, the soul artist decided she didn't want to shout the answer from the rooftops. There'd be no full-spread ad in Rolling Stone, no "Live With Regis," no cardboard cutouts in Virgin Mega-stores-even though the man with the money behind her record label, NBA legend Michael Jordan, could have guaranteed that and more. Instead, Scott and her Hidden Beach Recordings opted for a more grass-roots approach. Release day found her at a black-owned mom-and-pop record store down the street from her West Philly home, and in the weeks that followed she plugged her work with visits to high schools in Brooklyn and South-Central L. A. Anyone who really wanted to know who Jill Scott is would have to buy her album.