The Amnesia Express must have connected with Scott-Heron pretty hard, as he seems to have forgotten most of his best known songs for this two-hour show at New Morning. OK, so there’s Winter In America, Johannesburg and a near 20-minute The Bottle, but no The Revolution Will Be Televised, Lady Day & John Coltrane, Whitey On The Moon, etc.
What this does have is groove. In fact, Scott-Heron’s so locked in, it’s as if the 13 tracks just meld into one another. Some of the long improvs and call-andresponses drift too far to be enjoyable from the distance of a DVD, but Scott-Heron himself is the type that can hold your attention by simply being there.
A solo Your Daddy Loves You makes you question why he isn’t as f
