Jay-Z might’ve turned down the opportunity to collaborate with singer Ed Sheeran on his smash hit single, “Shape Of You,” but there’s one music titan that he just couldn’t pass up. Following his ...

Scott-Heron’s first two studio releases, beginning in 1971, were collaborations with Brian Jackson, a composer, keyboardist and flutist he first met at Lincoln University, a historically black college ...

Gil Scott-Heron has died at the age of 62. The musician passed away yesterday afternoon at a hospital in New York, according to Lisa Gottheil, his publicist at XL Recordings. It is not currently clear ...

The New York Knicks are, without question, one of the worst basketball teams in the NBA right now, and they’ve been that way for a while. Barring some sort of savior from Akron, Ohio, it seems as ...

For a number of years I have feared that I would receive a call from someone out of the blue to tell me that Gil Scott-Heron was dead. That call came late last Friday night. Gil’s name appeared on my ...

How this ancient instrument played its way into popular American Music. By John White, Lynn Levy, Diane Wong and Giovanni Russonello The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it ...

This morning, DiS is waking up to our Twitter feed and Facebook dashboard full of tributes to the legendary poet, author, activist and one of the key progenitors of ...

Award-winning performance artist Gia Scott-Heron, daughter of Lifetime Grammy Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, will perform selections from Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology at the one-night-only benefit “FROM ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Long before Public Enemy urged the need to “Fight the Power” or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil Scott-Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the ...