Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology delves deep into Scott-Heron's artistic genius, highlighting his innovative fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken word. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology shares the life and music of ...

"I've been down in New York City, brother, ain't no place I ain't been down," sang Gil Scott-Heron at Blues Alley Friday night. The lyric has acquired an ironic edge since the jazz poet last performed ...

What does it take to be a griot? According to the dictionary, griots are a 'member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or ...

Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter. District Line Daily covers local politics, culture, and the Needle—our daily quality of life index for D.C. under the Trump administration. He even ...

Gil Scott Heron is an iconic poet, author and musician whose spoken-word pieces “The Bottle” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” led to public and critical acclaim throughout the ’70s and early ...

Gil Scott-Heron wrote „Angola, Louisiana“ in 1978 about a Black teenager on death row for a crime he probably didn’t commit.

Gilbert Scott-Heron, African-American musician and jazz poet, known for his famous song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” first recorded in 1971, is being honored at the Black Writers Museum ...

How this ancient instrument played its way into popular American Music. By John White, Lynn Levy, Diane Wong and Giovanni Russonello The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it ...

From the March, 1977 issue of High Times comes David Fenton’s interview with the late, great Gil Scott-Heron, who would have been 72 years old on April 1. Gil Scott-Heron is a singer, songwriter and ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and recording artist whose syncopated spoken style and mordant critiques of politics, racism and mass media in pieces like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised made him a ...