Gil Scott-Heron live in concert.
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Gil Scott-Heron

7
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

69
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Critic Consensus

Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Gil Scott-Heron is rated as a neither good nor bad live performer, with shows that lack distinction.

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A New Vibration (Live Eugene '78) (3 August 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
jazz
Origin
Chicago, United States (4/1/1949)
Bio
Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, died May 27, 2011 in New York City) was an American poet and musician, known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer, associated with African American militant activists.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

musicOMH (UK)

July 14, 2010
60
%
Now three years later hepresides over an audience that’s crammed into a neo-classical London courtyard and an audience is hanging on his every word.

The Skinny (UK)

May 13, 2010
60
%
HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Scotland on April 26, 2010

The Guardian (UK)

April 26, 2010
80
%
When he ambles on stage for his first UK date in nine years eyes hidden by a flat cap and black suit flapping about his lean frame he doesn't do what you might expect.

Financial Times (UK)

July 16, 2010
60
%
The 1970s performance poet venerated as “the godfather of rap” appeared lost on a downward spiral jailed twice for drug offences in the 2000s.

Musikknyheter.no (Norway)

May 20, 2010
80
%
Gil Scott-Heron Live In Concert In Norway

State Magazine (Ireland)

May 7, 2010
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Some 40 years after A New Black Poet kicked the doors in with his revolutionary proto-rap and protest poetry Gil Scott-Heron is still rushing headlong forward – but for now survival is enough.

Westword (USA)

May 4, 2009
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Gil Scott-Heron w/Zin Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Fox Theatre, Boulder Better Than: The actual extended winter in America.

Past critic reviews published in

Devilution (Denmark), Gaffa (Denmark), Gaffa (Sweden), LA Record (USA), OC Weekly (USA) and more

Image Credit

Adam Turner [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons