Gil Scott-Heron - Live at Glastonbury (1986)Unreleased Private Press-Soul/Jazz/Blues(FLAC)

Poet,novelist,musician,and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago,Illinois
on April 1,1948 to parents Bobbie Scott Heron,a librarian,and Giles(Gil)Heron,a Jamaican
professional soccer player.He grew up in Lincoln,Tennessee and the Bronx,New York,
where he attended DeWitt Clinton High School.Heron attended Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania and received an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University.
By age thirteen Scott-Heron had written his first collection of poems.In 1968,he
published his first novel,The Vulture,a murder mystery.Central themes include the
devastating effects of drugs on urban black life. Four years later, Scott-Heron
published his second novel,The Nigger Factory(1972),which is set on the campus of a
historically black college (HBCU).It focused on the conflicting ideologies among the
traditional,Eurocentric-trained administrators,the younger,more nationalistic students
founders of  Members of Justice for Meaningful Black Education(MJUMBE)and the moderate
students and their leader,Earl Thomas.
Scott-Heron released more than fifteen albums and was best known as a musician and
songwriter.In 1970,he released his first album,New Black Poet Small Talk at 125th
and Lennox,Pieces of Man (1971),Free Will (1972) and Winter in America (1974).These
albums include such classic works as “The Revolution Will Not be Televised,”  “Lady
Day and John Coltrane,” “Whitey on the Moon,” “No Knock On My Brother’s Head,” and
“Home Is Where the Hatred Is.”
Known for his spoken word performances,Scott-Heron walked onto the international
stage simultaneously as did many of the Black Arts Movement poets,including Amiri
Baraka,Haki Madhubuti,Sonia Sanchez,and Nikki Giovanni.He shared their conviction
that art must be functional; therefore,as artist and communal leader,he must
embrace his role as a significant political voice committed to the liberation of
black people.Scott-Heron’s cacophonous voice resonated as well with that of Malcolm X,
the militant prophet-leader of the Nation of Islam who inspired a generation to add
ress the needs and condition of the urban black masses.The electric,edgy,angry sounds
he created with his fusion of soul,jazz,blues,and poetry—often in collaboration with
musician Brian Jackson—made him a forerunner to a later generation of rap artists,
particularly such socially conscious rappers as Tupac Shakur,Jay Z,Common,and Kanye
West.
Gil Scott-Heron released his last album,We’re Still Here,in 2011.He died in a
Manhattan hospital on May 27,2011.He was 62.In May 2021,Scott-Heron was selected as
an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Here's a half hour Private Press featuring four kicking tracks from a 1986 live show at
the Glastonbury Festival,originally broadcast on the BBC.Here we capture GSH somewh
ere in the middle of his 12 year hiatus between "Moving Target" and "Spirits",but
he's in fine voice and spirit.
Keyboardist Kim Jordan switches between synth and piano,and she contributes some
particularly fine piano solos,she was a member of Gil's touring band for 12 years. also appearing on the live "Minister of Information" album and "Spirits", both in 1994.
Also appearing on those albums was the Turrentine-ish saxophonist Ron Holloway,who
also played on "Moving Target" from which both "Blue Collar" and "Washington DC"
appear live here.He went on to record some albums for Milestone in the 90s,including
1998's "Groove Update" which features GSH on new versions of "Three Miles Down" and
"We Almost Lost Detroit".That album also featured drummer Rodney Youngs from here.
Joe Phillips' guitar adds a blues sensibility to the proceedings,Bassist Robbie Gordon
played with GSH from 1978 until 1994.He released a solo album called "Still Growing"
in 1996,which included an unusual straight-ahead acid jazz version of Gil's classic
song "B-Movie".
An anecdote about this gig from a guy who loved GSH
"I once had a pee on a fence next to him at Glastonbury festival,right after he’d
just come off stage.And when I asked him if he didn’t have a hospitality area
backstage and his own posh toilets,he shrugged and sad, “Yeah man,but I like to pee
with the people”...Says so much about the Mans Character..A true man of the people.
I will post more of his albums in due course having everything he,s done and many Rare Private Pressings! 

AMM

                                                   A TASTER BELOW BUT THE LIVE ONE IS BETTER(IMHO)!

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