Gordon Parks "Shaft's Big Score!" Movie Soundtrack LP (1972)
Gordon Parks "Shaft's Big Score!" Movie Soundtrack LP (1972)
Gordon Parks "Shaft's Big Score!" Movie Soundtrack LP (1972)
MGM Records

Gordon Parks "Shaft's Big Score!" Movie Soundtrack LP (1972)

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Details: Another super-cool Shaft! joint. This is the Shaft! "Shaft's Big Score!" movie soundtrack composed by brilliant director, composer, and photographer, Gordon Parks (funk/soul). Corner wear (bending, see images). The second movie in the Shaft movie canon (starring Richard Roundtree) released in 1972. Yellow/age near opening, and a paper rip near top of opening, but rest of cover looks clean. Record media is NM. MGM pressing.

Description: "Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography."

"Gordon Parks began his artistic career as a musician, starting out as a brothel pianist and traveling with a jazz band. He had been playing piano by ear since his childhood and, although he could not read or write music, he started composing his own piano pieces. While Parks would soon take up the camera more seriously and begin his accomplished career as a photographer, he continued to compose music. In 1956, a Vienna orchestra performed his piano concerto.  He also scored some of the films he directed, including the first major Hollywood film by a black American director, The Learning Tree (1969). In 1990, he composed the music and libretto for Martin, a ballet honoring the life of Martin Luther King Jr."--The Gordon Parks Foundation 

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Blowin' Your Mind
A2. The Other Side
A3. Smart Money
A4. First Meeting
A5. Asby-Kelly Man
A6. Don't Misunderstand
A7. Move On In

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

Symphony For Shafted Souls (The Big Chase) (in six parts)
B1. Take Off
B2 Dance Of the Cars
B3. Water Ballet (Pt 1)
B4. Water Ballet (Pt 2)
B5. Call and Response
B6. The Last Amen