• Jamaica's Percussionist LARRY MCDONALD music Journey with GIL SCOTT HERON

  • May 12 2017
  • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
  • Podcast

Jamaica's Percussionist LARRY MCDONALD music Journey with GIL SCOTT HERON

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues".His music, most notably on Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. In fact, Scott-Heron himself is considered by many to be the first rapper/MC ever, a recognition also shared by fellow American MC Coke La Rock.
    Show more Show less
Show more Show less

What listeners say about Jamaica's Percussionist LARRY MCDONALD music Journey with GIL SCOTT HERON

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available