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 ...

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 ...

Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology delves deep into Scott-Heron's artistic genius, highlighting his innovative fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken word. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology shares the life and music of ...

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 ...

Jay-Z has shared the remix for "Empire State of Mind" with Gil Scott-Heron, which the Brooklyn native performed at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and recording artist whose syncopated spoken style and mordant critiques of politics, racism and mass media in pieces like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised made him a ...

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 ...

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 ...