4.0 out of 5 stars
excellent, September 8, 2010
You'll never mistake Galt McDermot's composing style for any other.
Hair) is the most known. But during this period, McDermot stuck with his funky soul theater style
Cotton Comes To Harlem was a 1970 film about two cops looking for eighty thousand stolen bucks in a bail of cotton. Ossie Davis directed.
This =being a film score gives McDermot opportunities he would not have composing for stage. His soundtrack contains more instrumentals and wonderful funky interludes. These don't deviate from the composer you know--those wha wha guitars and bass spitting out syncopations are in tact. The vocal tracks are also charming and work as soul tracks. Music in 1970 was more funky than when Hair was composed in 1967, and you'll notice this sounds slightly more like an out and out funk album than Hair's theater moves.
By the way, if you are an aspiring bass player and want to learn how to play from when musicians knew how, check out the four string work on this--or Hair for that matter.
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