Gil Scott-Heron‘s latest album, I’m New Here, is to be remixed by Jamie Smith of the xx. The London trio’s beat-maker, bass-rumbler and synth-player has been commissioned to rebuild the poet’s ...

Since the death of spoken word musician Gil Scott-Heron on Friday, more than one post-Boomer – Scott-Heron was 62 – confessed online that the so-called “godfather of rap” was unknown to them. Savvy ...

Gil Scott-Heron, often called the godfather of hip hop, is most known for songs like “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” “The Bottle” and “Johannesburg.” In this excerpt from the book “Gil ...

Gil Scott-Heron might not have been a journalist, but the poet and musician was sure enough a social commentator who could “make it sing,” and his subjects included the media. His most quoted piece ...

Nobody could tell singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron that idealism had become outdated when he was a musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” in 1975. He performed “Johannesburg,” a funk tune with a ...

The New York Knicks are, without question, one of the worst basketball teams in the NBA right now, and they’ve been that way for a while. Barring some sort of savior from Akron, Ohio, it seems as ...

I’m New Here, the first LP in more than 15 years from poet & musician Gil Scott Heron, came out earlier week on XL. In January, Gil played at SOB’s for MLK Day, and now with the album out, there are ...

Rebellion runs through pop music, but no performer has ever fused music and radical politics like Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27. In a series of early 1970s albums, Scott-Heron, collaborating ...

Gil Scott-Heron would have been 68 years old on April 1st. I can still remember Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) coming up behind Scott-Heron and blindfolding him. Scott-Heron never flinched, even when ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician who was a primary influence for generations of hip-hop artists, died on May 27 at the age of 62. Scott-Heron has been called "the Godfather of Hip Hop music," ...

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 ...