Tag Archives: Gil Scott Heron

HW Pick: Blues For BiIlie Holiday By Terri Callier (video)

Singer Terry Callier sings Blues For Billie Holiday “Lady Day“. Terrence Orlando Callier, known as Terry Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter. Continue reading

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The Last Poets, 1960′s, East Harlem

The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement‘s black nationalist movement. Continue reading

Media Legend, Vy Higginsen Aims to Save the Music with “Sing, Harlem, Sing!”

Harlem Arts Alliance Presents:  On the “A” w/Souleo
Media pioneer and Harlem legend, Vy Higginsen has created change on many platforms including being the first black female radio personality in the prime time New York City market and the first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway with August Wilson‘s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”  Continue reading

The Danny Tisdale Show: Shootings, Closings …

Join host Danny Tisdale on HW Radio Podcast as he talks about the upcoming tribute The Revolution Will Be Jazz, TOO! by Harlem producer by Mark Harris to Harlem’s Gil Scott-Heron at Paris Blues in Harlem fundraiser for his project with Malcolm Jamal-Warner, bassist/vocalist MeShell Ndegeocello. Plus: shootings in Harlem what can be done; Hue-man books closes this week, and St. Nick’s Pub maybe closing soon – what price Harlem history.

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‘The Revolution Will Be Jazz’ TOO! At Paris Blues

‘The Revolution Will Be Jazz’ TOO! – a party, a gathering, a hip exchange of words, a sip of wine, improvised, spoken, token, chillin, willin to be kickin’ our Tribute to Harlem’s Gil Scott-Heron. Continue reading

HW Radio Pod: with Giacomo Gates music and Souleo events

Listen to the Special HW Radio Podcast show with host Danny Tisdale as he talks with Harlem musician Giacomo Gates new CD based on Gil Scott Heron’s Harlmem album and Souleo talks his event the New York Public Library Celebrates Pride Month and the Arts series.

June 19th, at 2 pm. Continue reading

HW Pick: ‘The Last Holiday: A Memoir’ By Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27, 2011, aged sixty-two, was a composer, musician, poet, and author who played in Harlem to Hollywood whose writings and recordings provided a vivid, and often stinging, commentary on social injustice and the African American experience; his declamatory singing style, allied to the overtly political content of his work, made him widely recognized as one of the inspirational figures of rap music. Continue reading

Gil Scott-Heron Passes (video)

Gil Scott-Heron, a pioneer in a style of musical spoken word that evolved into rap, died Friday night at a St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. He was 62.

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National Poetry Month In Harlem

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In celebration of National Poetry Month. We celebrate with some o the based poetry work posted on the Harlem World Magazine platforms site. Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

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‘Small Talk At 125th And Lenox’ By Gil Scott-Heron

A New Black PoetSmall Talk at 125th and Lenox, also known simply as Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, is the debut album of soul musician and jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron, released in 1970 on Flying Dutchman Records. Recording sessions for the album took place live at a New York nightclub located on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Continue reading