The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

Tracklist

• CD 1: Songs
• 1
  Lady Day and John Coltrane
  3:36
• 2
  Home Is Where the Hatred Is
  3:21
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Save the Children
  4:27
• 4
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  3:07
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Did You Hear What They Said?
  3:29
• 6
  Pieces of a Man
  4:54
• 7
  Speed Kills
  3:16
• 8
  Everyday
  4:22
• 9
  I Think I'll Call It Morning
  3:31
• 10
  When You Are Who You Are
  3:22
• 11
  Free Will
  3:32
• 12
  Or Down You Fall
  3:13
• 13
  The Needle's Eye
  4:50
• 14
  The Middle of Your Day
  4:30
• 15
  A Sign of the Ages
  4:02
• 16
  Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?
  5:13
• CD 2: Poetry, Jazz & The Blues
• 1
  Introduction / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  3:23
• 2
  Whitey on the Moon
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 3
  No Knock
  2:13
• 4
  Small Talk at 125th & Lenox
  1:23
• 5
  Billy Green Is Dead
  1:31
• 6
  Sex Education: Ghetto Style
  0:53
• 7
  The Vulture
  4:35
• 8
  The Prisoner
  9:27
• 9
  ... And Then He Wrote Meditations
  3:14
• 10
  Plastic Pattern People
  2:53
• 11
  The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
  5:09
• 12
  Artificialness

  Pretty Purdie & The Playboys feat. Gil Scott‐Heron
  3:07
• 13
  Ain't No New Thing
  4:33
• 14
  Brother
  2:37
• 15
  Evolution (And Flashback)
  3:22
• 16
  The King Alfred Plan
  2:48
• 17
  Enough
  4:13
• 18
  Paint It Black
  0:33
• 19
  Omen
  1:46
• 20
  Wiggy
  1:39
• 21
  Comment #1
  4:28
• 22
  The Subject Was Faggots
  3:11
• CD 3: The Alternate Free Will
• 1
  Did You Hear What They Said? (alt take 1)
  3:30
• 2
  The Middle of Your Day (alt take 1)
  4:41
• 3
  Free Will (alt take 1)
  2:57
• 4
  The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues (alt ending)
  5:06
• 5
  Speed Kills (alt take 3)
  3:19
• 6
  The King Alfred Plan (alt take)
  3:02
• 7
  No Knock (alt take)
  2:04
• 8
  Wiggy (alt take)
  1:30
• 9
  Ain't No New Thing (breakdown take)
  2:42
• 10
  Billy Green Is Dead (alt take)
  1:34
• 11
  ... And Then He Wrote Meditations (alt take)
  1:33
• 12
  No Knock (breakdown alt take)
  2:09
• 13
  Free Will (alt take 2)
  2:49

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I’m New Here

I’m New Here 2010

Save the Children: Live in Concert

Save the Children: Live in Concert 2004

Spirits

Spirits 1994

Release credits

• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1.1-7, 1.9-15, 2.8, 2.11]
• Bob Simpson
  mix [1.1-7, 1.9-15, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20]
• Bob Thiele
  producer [1.1-16, 2.1-11, 2.13-22]
• Brian Jackson
  bell [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11], electric piano [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 2.8], flute [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20], piano [2.8, 2.11, 1.1-7, 1.9-15], vocal [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11]
• Burt Jones
  electric guitar [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 2.8]
• Charlie Saunders
  percussion [3, 5-6, 9, 13, 16, 20]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11]
• Eddie Knowles
  percussion [3, 5-6, 9, 13, 16, 20]
• Gil Scott‐Heron
  lead vocals [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20, 1.1-7, 1.9-15], vocal [5, 9]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11], conductor [2.11, 1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14]
• Hubert Laws
  flute [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 2.8], piccolo [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11], saxophone [2.8, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.11]
• Johnny Pate
  conductor [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15, 2.8]
• Lillian Seyfert
  co [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 1.14, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20]
• Ron Carter
  bass guitar [2.8, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15], electric bass guitar [2.8, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-13, 1.15]

Issues

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  The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

  3x CD
  2012