Spoken-word pioneer Gil Scott-Heron, who always travels in his own time zone, finally made it to the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis -- 17 days and 32 minutes later than originally scheduled. Before a ...

Feb. 25 - It's no surprise that the hip-hop generation is giving Gil Scott-Heron props for his influence - his wordplay anticipated the entirety of urban message music. The poet-turned-jazzy musician ...

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 ...

When Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson released their album Winter in America in 1974, they did it against a backdrop of political unrest: President Nixon had resigned and civil unrest was growing as ...

For most of his career, Gil Scott-Heron called New York home, but his Jamaican roots — a crucial if underexamined part of his life — were never far from the jazz-soul genius. Scott-Heron’s father, ...

The late musician's "Nothing New" will come out in limited-edition 12-inch vinyl on April 19. By Roy Trakin Gil Scott-Heron’s Nothing New, a posthumous album of previously unreleased performances, ...