While produced by Jackson's longtime producer Lew Futterman, the album was largely a project of keyboardist Chris Parren, later associated with The Strawbs, among other bands,[1] and trombonist John Bennett, who had developed his reputation as a jazz musician, with Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.

included other musicians from those earlier sessions, though key band members Dick Morrissey, Terry Smith and Dave Quincy were absent.

The three had left to co-found the band If, at the suggestion of Jackson producer Lew Futterman, who also became the group's manager.

[3] Parren and Bennett, along with Terry Smith and Dick Morrissey, had also worked with Jackson earlier in 1970 on To Seek a New Home, an album by Brother Jack McDuff,[4] recorded in England at Island Studios,[5] where ...and proud of it!

[6] The single from the album was "Nobody's Gonne Help you (Less'n You Help Yourself)",[7] with "Help Me Get My Grits", from the British version of J.J. Jackson's Dilemma, as the B-side.