Essential (Jethro Tull album) explained

"The Essential"
Type:	Greatest hits
Artist:	Jethro Tull
Cover:	JT Essential.jpg
Released:	24 March 2003 (UK March 31, 2003 (U.S.)
Length:	43:41
Label:	Chrysalis
Producer:	Ian Anderson Terry Ellis
Prev Title:	Living with the Past
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Next Year:	2003

The Essential (2003) is a greatest hits album by Jethro Tull, digitally remastered. The songs included and their order are the same as Tull's first greatest hits album, M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Jethro Tull compilation "Essential", released in 2011.

Track listing

1. "Teacher" – 4:07
2. "Aqualung" – 6:34
3. "Thick as a Brick (Edit No.1)" – 3:01
4. "Bungle in the Jungle" – 3:34
5. "Locomotive Breath" – 4:23
6. "Fat Man" – 2:50
7. "Living in the Past" – 3:18
8. "A Passion Play Edit #8" – 3:28
9. "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" – 4:02
10. "Rainbow Blues" – 3:37
11. "Nothing Is Easy" – 4:23

Personnel

• Ian Anderson – flute, vocals, saxophone, acoustic guitar (all tracks)
• Martin Barre – electric guitar (all tracks)
• Glenn Cornick – bass (tracks 1, 7, 11)
• Clive Bunker – drums (tracks 1, 2, 5 – 7, 11)
• John Evan – Hammond organ, piano, synthesizers (tracks 1 – 5, 8 – 10)
• Jeffrey Hammond – bass (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10)
• Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion, glockenspiel (tracks 3, 4, 8 – 10)
• David Palmer – orchestration, orchestra conducting

External links

• Jethro Tull - The Essential (2003) album review by Wade Kergan, credits & releases at AllMusic.com
• Jethro Tull - The Essential (2003) album releases & credits at Discogs.com
• Jethro Tull - The Essential (2003) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com
• Jethro Tull - The Essential (2003) / M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull (1976) album to be listened as stream at Play.Spotify.com