Gil Scott-Heron - Baden-Baden, Germany 1984
Gil Scott-Heron - Ohne Filter
Baden-Baden, Germany
March 1984
Broadcast source @320
2 Un-chaptered files @ 58:18
No set list was available for this recording.
Musicians:
Gil Scott-Heron - Piano & Vocals
Kim Jordan - Keyboards & Backup Vocals
Ron Holloway - Saxophone
Robert Gordon - Bass
Larry McDonald - PercussionRodney Young - Drums
Gil Scott-Heron was an American jazz poet, singer, musician, and author known
for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s.
His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues, and
soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in
both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. He referred to himself as a "bluesologist,
his own term for "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues”.
His poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", delivered over a jazz-soul beat,
is considered a major influence on hip hop music.
Scott-Heron's music, particularly on the albums Pieces of a Man and Winter
in America during the early 1970s, influenced and foreshadowed later
African-American music genres, including hip hop and neo soul.
His recording work received much critical acclaim, especially for
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". AllMusic's John Bush called him
"one of the most important progenitors of rap music", stating that "his aggressive,
no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while
his engaging songwriting skills placed him square in the R&B charts later
in his career."
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