Slowly Surely

Recorded for Jill Scott’s debut album, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1, at A Touch of Jazz Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The track is credited to Jill Scott, Darren Henson, and Don Thompson, with Darren Henson producing and engineering and Serban Ghenea among the mixing personnel. “Slowly Surely” appeared on Scott’s 2000 debut album, a widely praised release that helped define her as a major neo-soul voice. The song’s credit stack and sample-based construction fit the album’s A Touch of Jazz-era Philadelphia sound. The track later inspired Theo Parrish’s re-edit and remained one of the album’s signature deep cuts. Its sampling of Moe Koffman’s “Days Gone By (Egyptology)” tied it to the crate-digging culture that continued to shape soul, house, and R&B reworkings.