Free Will [Original recording remastered, Import]

Gil Scott-Heron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: RCA Victor Europe
• ASIN: B00005IAX6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #404,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Free Will

2. The Middle of Your Day

3. The Get out of the Ghetto Blues

4. Speed Kills

5. Did You Hear What They Said?

6. The King Alfred Plan

7. No Knock

8. Wiggy

9. Ain't No New Thing

10. Billy Green Is Dead

11. Sex Education: Ghetto Style

12. ...And Then He Wrote Meditations

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, September 13, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Free Will (Audio CD)

Generalizing, you could divide 1970s Gil Scott Heron in two parts--the early 70s, where he used jazz pros like Ron Carter and Bernard Purdie, and his work with the Midnight Band, an out and out funk unit.

Free Will represents the first catagory, and features blues, flute driven numbers, and the politically charged bongo-poetry-jazz that rightly put Heron on FM radio.

This music was perfect for its era. The flute work in particualr reminds me of Quincy Jones or Lalo Shfrin's soundtrack work of the period.

Subjectively. I perfer the streemlined punch of the Midnight Band, which used a funk rock frame as a context for jazz as opposed to the out and out jazz here. But this is quality work and would be a fine place to start exploring this underrated artist who is not remembered often enough.