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Released a year before he died, Gil Scott-Heron's final album (and first in 16 years) awed listeners as he paired his signature street poetry with surprising covers, hypnotic loops, hip-hop beats and... more

XL Recordings head Richard Russell, who produced Scott-Heron's final album, "I'm New Again," became enamored with the work of Chicago musician/beat-maker/producer Makaya McCraven a couple years back.... more

2021 release. On Talk Memory, the trio of Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar/woodwinds), return to their instrumental beginnings and pay homage to the... more