Scott-Heron, Gil - Reflections CD (RSD '26 Ltd.)

TRACKS:

1 Storm Music
2 Grandma's Hands
3 Is That Jazz
4 Morning Thoughts
5 Inner City Blues (Poem: 'The Siege of New Orleans')
6 Gun
7 'B' Movie

and soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. He referred to himself as a "bluesologist", his own term for "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues". His poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", delivered over a jazz-soul beat, is considered a major influence on hip hop music.