special documentary mix of Gil Scott Heron's first ever performance in Hungary
Gil Scott Heron: soundbites his performance and press conference in Szombathely, Hungary at Mediawave Festival
7th May, 2010
on his influences, the Harlem renaissance, artistic cooperations, and messages
(with my brief notes)
Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the sun: prologue
GSH press conf intro
short bio (Lincoln University years, great black alumni: Langston Hughes, Melvin B. Tolson, Thurgood Marshall, Kwame Nkrumah),
Harlem Renaissance
Soundberg Library New York: mecca of people worldwide
Milt Jackson - People make the world go round
GSH: About clubs, bookstores, learning and teaching in the 60s-70s
1967 LIncoln, 1971 John Hopkins Uni, teaching Washington DC
influences: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McCay, Countee Cullen, poets-editors
Black newspapers: Chicago Defender, Amsterdam news, pittsburg courier
http://www.chicagodefender.com/, http://www.amsterdamnews.com/, http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html
New York was the melting pot MUSIC
less poetic writers: Booker t Washington, W.E. Dubois
Editorial and Advisory Boards of the Encyclopedia of the Negro
Rick Holmes - remember o remember
John Colrane, Donny Hathaway, Woody Charles, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Sevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Barry White, Nina Simone, James Brown, Eleanor Everley, Oliver Nelson, Isley Brothers, Rodney Franklin, , Nelson Wilson, earth wind and fire, Leon thomas, Pharaoh Sanders, Alex Haley, Charlie parker, Billy Holliday, LTD, Bobby Bland, Roy Ayers, Gil Scott Heron said, Hugh Masakela, Richard Pryor
MalcolmX, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey, Rick Holmes, Miriam Makeba, Richard Pryor, Adam Clayton Powell, Martin Luther King, Elijah Muhammad, W.E. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Nat turner, Shirley Chisolm, Andrew Young, Clara Holmes, George Washington Carver, Ceasar Chavez, Sidney Poitier, Count Bassie, Fats Navarro, Art tatum, fats waller, eric Dolphy, Stevie Wonder, Minnie Ripperton, Louis Armstrong,
Prophets of Soul - Ain't no Sunshine
ANGER? no, 'a poet feels what his community feels"
check the poems around revolution: save the children, Lady Day and John Coltrane, home is where, i think i call that morning, pieces of a dream,
community
GSH - home is where the hatred is
GSH - revolution will not be televised
moody - i feel earth move
GSH: revolution takes place in your mind
media needs to be more integrated
not enough to know about south africa, do something about it
GSH - inner city blues
jimmy mcgriff - the mean machine
GSH about present black MCs: message to the messengers
black future
cooperations with / sampling by: kanye west, mos def, common
natural exchange among artists
surprises among black artists : Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker
black wirters conference in brooklyn http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/program.html
LEROI JONES, Toni Morrison
the arts are no longer so separated
Langston Hughes wrote line: A Raisin in the sun
stage production, Lorraine Hansberry,
film feat Sidney Poitier
Borrow from each other, symbolic community ...
about Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Judd Woldin - Running to meet the man (raisin in the sun)
Ronnie Foster - mystic brew
wrote about new york city
GSH "New York Is Killing Me," based on a John Lee Hooker blues,)
working together, cooperations
I'm new here - new album
spoken word and music
GSH - New York City
about concert (glenn turner, carl cornwell) amnesia express: glenn, harmonica solo Storm music
tony dunkinson 1975/76
1980
GSH - Storm music
about writing
stevie wonder - blackman
+ isaac hayes brohers - run faye run
press conf about accompanying stevie wonder on his mission to get MLK's birthday to become a National Holiday
prophets of soul - love and happiness
on his books and albums
Books: the vulture, the nigger factory, now and then
the qualitons - the one man
briefly on the albums:
125th Small Talk, Reflections, Mind of GSH, Moving Target
whole idea about the Mind of Gil Scott Heron
whitey on the moon, revolution,
last full album for arista, bought by RCA
the reissues, south africa carolina,
+horn arrangement, covers, inner city blues, grandma's hands , B MOVIE (electronic sounds beeps)
about translations of his works
and a few pix with my what he called "a remarkable collection"
wait for the exclusive 2 hour GSH works and influences set... coming soon