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Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections album flac Performer: Gil Scott-Heron
Title: Reflections
Style: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Funk
Released: 1981
Country: US
MP3 album: 1407 mb
FLAC album: 1609 mb
Rating: 4.2
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Genre: Jazz / Funk and Soul

Reflections ‎(CD, Album, RM). Arista, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Jazz. Reflections ‎(LP, Album). Reflections ‎(LP, Album, Club, CRC).

Nothing New is a posthumous album of vocal & piano recordings by Gil Scott-Heron released by XL Recordings on April 19, 2014 in conjunction with Record Store Day. The album consists of new, stripped-down versions of a selection of older Scott-Heron songs stretching from 1971's "Pieces of a Man" to 1994's "The Other Side". It was recorded with producer Richard Russell between 2005 and 2009, in the same sessions that led to 2011's I'm New Here.

Although a major across-the-board hit always eluded the poet, singer, and activist Gil Scott-Heron, this album does contain one of his best-known songs. B-Movie," an extended attack on Ronald "Ray-gun," unleashes 12 minutes of vitriol about the then recently elected president. Beginning with the declaration "Mandate, my ass," it's a laundry list of fears about Reagan, fantasizing that his election meant "we're all actors" in some surreal film. Delivered over a taut funk groove, parts of it are still funny.

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, died May 27, 2011 in New York City) was an American poet and musician, known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer, associated with African American militant activists.

Gilbert 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.

Album by Gil Scott-Heron. Grandma's Hands (cover of "Grandma's Hands" by Bill Withers). Is That Jazz? Morning Thoughts.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Storm Music
Backing Vocals – Clydene Jackson, Julia Waters, Maxine WatersGuitar – Kenny Lazarus*Percussion, Timbales – Larry MacDonald*
4:51
A2 Grandma's Hands
Tenor Saxophone – Leon Williams
5:24
A3 Is That Jazz? 3:43
A4 Morning Thoughts 4:37
B1 Inner City Blues
Tenor Saxophone – Leon Williams
5:46
B2 Gun
Electric Piano – Gil Scott-Heron
4:00
B3 "B" Movie 12:10

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – T.O.N.T.O.
  • Recorded At – Bias Studios
  • Printed By – Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH
  • Distributed By – Ariola Group Of Companies

Credits

  • Bass – Robert Gordon*
  • Drums – Kenny Powell
  • Guitar – Ed Brady
  • Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Clavinet, Synthesizer [String], Harmonica – Glen Turner
  • Producer – Malcolm Cecil
  • Producer, Vocals – Gil Scott-Heron
  • Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute – Vernon James
  • Tenor Saxophone – Carl Cornwell (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3)
  • Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Kenny Sheffield

Notes

Recorded at TONTO, Santa Monica, Cal. April-June 1981 and BIAS Studio, Springfield, Virginia June 1981.
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Comes with a printed insert (Innersleeve), that has a nr. printed:
204 094/97 064

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: Stemra

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
AL 9566 Gil Scott-Heron Reflections ‎(LP, Album) Arista AL 9566 US 1981
204 094 Gil Scott-Heron Reflections ‎(LP, Album, RE) Arista 204 094 Europe 1987
82876820822 Gil Scott-Heron Reflections ‎(CD, Album, RM) Arista, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Jazz 82876820822 Europe 2006
SPART 1180 Gil Scott-Heron Reflections ‎(LP, Album) Arista SPART 1180 Germany 1981
AL 9566 Gil Scott-Heron Reflections ‎(LP, Album, Club, CRC) Arista AL 9566 US 1981