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V.A. Can you Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1969-75

Soul Jazz | Item No: 401163
2CD | 2009 / UK – Reissue | New
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Item Description
The Black Action Films of the early 1970s gave Hollywood its first African-American cinema - actors, directors, cameramen, editors and writers. These films discussed aspects of the African-American experience in the form of entertainment. Storylines interwove post-civil rights revolution with action stories, many involving pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers or private detectives. The films also featured the finest funk and soul black music of the time as stars such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Willie Hutch and Roy Ayers produced some of their finest work, with film budgets allowing for the addition of huge orchestral arrangements by jazz legends such as
Item Details
Item No: 401163
Artist: V.A.
Title: Can you Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1969-75
Label: Soul Jazz
Catalog No: SJRCD214
Format: 2CD, CD
Pressing: UK – Reissue
Release Date: 2009
Genre: Organic Grooves
Style: Funk | Soul, Jazz | Fusion
Available since: 2014-12-30
Condition: New
Price: $ 16.47
Weight: 200g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
01 Roy Ayers - Coffy Is The Color
02 Gene Page - Blacula
03 Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa
04 Willie Hutch - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
05 Don Costa - Charley
06 Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
07 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
08 Jj Johnson - Willie Chase
09 James Brown - Down & Out In New York City
10 Quincy Jones - They Call Me Mister Tibbs
11 Martha Reeves - Keep On Movin On
12 Dennis Coffey - Theme From Black Belt Jones
13 Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead
14 The Blackbyrds - Wilford's Gone
15 Willie Hutch - Theme Of Foxy Brown
16 Isaac Hayes - Run Fay Run
01 Isaac Hayes - Shaft
02 Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
03 Joe Simon - Theme From Cleopatra Jones
04 Johnny Pate - You Can't Even Walk In The Park
05 Brer Soul & Earth, Wind & Fire - Sweetback's Theme
06 James Brown - Make It Good To Yourself
07 Isaac Hayes - Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile
08 Grant Green - Travelling To Get To Doc
09 Booker T & The Mg's - Time Is Tight
10 Roy Ayers - Aragon
11 Edwin Starr - Easin In
12 Gordon Staples - Strung Out
13 Nat Dove & The Devils - Zombie March
14 The Impressions - Make A Resolution
15 Solomon Burke & Gene Page - The Bus
16 Jack Ashford - Las Vegas Strut
17 Don Julian - Lay It On Your Head
18 Galt Macdermot - Ed & Digger
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