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Evolution (And Flashback): The Very Best of Gil Scott-Heron | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gil Scott-heron
Label: RCA
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 49986
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 63141
UPC: 090266314126
EAN: 0090266314126
ASIN: B00000HZTD
Release Date: February 9, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Paint It Black | | • | Evolution (And Flashback) | | • | Free Will | | • | Whitey on the Moon | | • | The Vulture | | • | Small Talk at 125th and Lenox | | • | Billy Green Is Dead | | • | Ain't No New Thing | | • | Get out of the Ghetto Blues - Gil Scott-Heron, Jackson, Brian [1] | | • | The King Alfred Plan | | • | No Knock | | • | Enough | | • | Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul? | | • | Home Is Where the Hatred Is | | • | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
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Amazon.com
No artist articulated the pride, pain, and passion of African Americans in the post-civil rights era better than singer, poet, author, pianist, and composer Gil Scott-Heron. These 15 selections from his historic Flying Dutchman recordings from 1970 to 1972 capture the sting of his social commentary and scope of his artistic dimension. The Chicago-born, Tennessee-reared, New York City-bred Scott-Heron drew equally from the blues, gospel, Latin, funk, and soul and created beautiful art out of the angst of those turbulent times. Together with lifelong partner Brian Jackson on keyboards, and occasionally backed by flutist Hubert Laws and bassist Ron Carter, Scott-Heron spoke about the ills and illuminations of black life: from the conga-pulsed identity issues of "Paint in Black" and the title cut, to the vast economic gap between white and black he so eloquently expressed on "Whitey on the Moon." "Small Talk at 125th Street" paints a nuanced picture of the famous Harlem street, and "Home Is Where the Hatred Is," with its Fender Rhodes chords and soulful and cinematic sound, and "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" not only prophesized America's future race and class problems, but also foreshadowed the rap and hip-hop movement, which Gil Scott-Heron birthed through his intensity and honesty. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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 Awesome stuff, but not complete November 20, 2008
Cannot give this collection 5 stars because it lacks his two most important cuts: 'The Bottle' and "Johannesburg.'
I'm sure there are limitations because he changed labels. If you want the best of his earliest work, this is it. But you should know you have to get those other cuts too.
 enlightening April 29, 2008
I heard pieces of this CD, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Whitey's On The Moon," on a local community radio station in very-white Salt Lake City called KRCL (yes, that's a "plug") and was surprised it ever made it to CD... not because it's no good but because it's so not-corporate and so angry and so incredibly poetic and just SO good. Scott-Heron puts you where he lives, over and over again, with angry language that, when it's done, leaves you knowing you've heard maybe some of the most exquisite poetry of the late 20th century. And, no, I don't think that's an exaggeration at all. That it's available from (very-corporate) Amazon is a ironic, but I'll take my poetry where I can get it.
 The Very Worst of Gil Scott-Heron March 11, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
What I thought would be a funk CD is instead a compilation of Whitey-Bashing. . .don't be fooled!
Essential October 10, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Before there was rap, there was Gil Scott-Heron. Before there was techno, there was Gil Scott-Heron. Before there was jazz-rock, there was Gil Scott-Heron. After 6 years of George Bush, where are you Gill Scott-Heron?
We need you now more than ever!
Before Michael Moore there was Gil Scott-Heron January 18, 2004
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
Before the ultra popular retoric of Michael Moore there was the lone black voice of Gil. Literaly every one of the socio-political issues that Moore tackles through his books and films on the subject of America have been covered by GSH on this collection and his back catalogue. Of course GSH could not have reached as large an audience as Mr. Moore but none the less Gil's flag was flown there first!....His revolution was not Televised! Word to Brian Jackson on the keys and arrangments, brother Ron Carter(the most recorded Bassist in music History 500 Sessions +)and the underatted Pretty Purdie on drums and the eloquent Hubert Laws on Flute/Ts.
Get this first as an introduction and then try "Winter in America".
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