{"title":"Gil Scott-Heron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949 to Bobbie Scott, a Mississippi-born opera singer, and Gil Heron, a soccer player. After his parents divorced he was raised by his grandmother in Jackson, Tennessee, and later lived in New York City. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He called himself a bluesologist, defined as a scientist concerned with the origin of the blues, and he was also a novelist and poet. \u003cem\u003eSmall Talk at 125th and Lenox\u003c\/em\u003e (Flying Dutchman, 1970) was an album of his poems that included “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” and “Whitey on the Moon.” With keyboardist and flautist Brian Jackson he then built a jazz, funk and soul sound. \u003cem\u003ePieces of a Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1971) carried “Lady Day and John Coltrane” and “Home Is Where the Hatred Is,” with Ron Carter on bass, Bernard Purdie on drums and Hubert Laws on flute and saxophone. After a dispute with the label that ended his Flying Dutchman run, he and Jackson recorded \u003cem\u003eWinter in America\u003c\/em\u003e for Strata-East in 1973 (released 1974), with the original “The Bottle.” In 1975 he moved to Clive Davis’s Arista, where he worked with Jackson through \u003cem\u003eIt’s Your World\u003c\/em\u003e (1976). His music is widely credited with foreshadowing hip hop and neo soul. He struggled with addiction for years. His last album, \u003cem\u003eI’m New Here\u003c\/em\u003e (XL Recordings, 2010), was critically acclaimed. He died in New York City on 27 May 2011, aged 62.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-2017-bgp-flying-dutchman-reissue-vinyl-lp","title":"Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2017 BGP\/Flying Dutchman Reissue Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGil Scott-Heron - \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP, 2017 BGP\/Flying Dutchman Reissue (BGPD 306, Ace Records)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEleven tracks compiled from Scott-Heron’s first three Flying Dutchman albums\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eSmall Talk at 125th and Lenox\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePieces of a Man\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFree Will\u003c\/em\u003e), recorded between 1970 and 1972, produced by Bob Thiele\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSession musicians include Ron Carter and Gerry Jemott on bass, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie on drums, Hubert Laws on flute and alto saxophone, and David Spinozza on guitar\u003c\/strong\u003e, with Brian Jackson on piano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBGP Records reissue\u003c\/strong\u003e of the 1974 Flying Dutchman compilation, mastered by Nick Robbins at Sound Mastering, with Charles Stewart’s original cover photography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGil Scott-Heron was twenty-one when Bob Thiele signed him to Flying Dutchman Records after reading his book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eSmall Talk at 125th and Lenox\u003c\/em\u003e. The first album (1970) was recorded with just Scott-Heron’s voice and three percussionists. The second, \u003cem\u003ePieces of a Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), brought in a band of first-call session musicians, and the music changed: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” went from a spoken word poem over congas to a jazz-funk piece with Ron Carter’s bass, Hubert Laws’s flute and Bernard Purdie’s drums underneath it. This 1974 compilation draws from all three Flying Dutchman albums, and it remains the most concentrated introduction to Scott-Heron’s early work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe material ranges from the blunt, witty spoken word of “Whitey on the Moon” (a minute and a half contrasting the space programme with conditions in Black neighbourhoods) and the brevity of “Sex Education: Ghetto Style” and “No Knock” to the fully arranged jazz-soul of “Lady Day and John Coltrane” (a song about finding solace in music), “Pieces of a Man” (a portrait of a man watching his father break down), and “Home Is Where the Hatred Is” (about addiction, with a directness that has lost nothing in fifty years). Brian Jackson, Scott-Heron’s primary musical collaborator for the next decade, plays piano throughout the band tracks. The session musicians (Carter, Purdie, Laws, Spinozza, Jemott) are among the most recorded players of their generation. Bob Thiele, who had produced John Coltrane, Benny Carter, and McCoy Tyner at Impulse!, produced all three source albums. This 2017 BGP reissue (Ace Records) is mastered by Nick Robbins. Cover photograph by Charles Stewart. Catalogue number BGPD 306.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BGP Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44819272532027,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/029667005814.webp?v=1793359240"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/gil-scott-heron.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}