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Well-known member
Nino Rota
John Barry
Bernhard Herrmann (Hitchcock bizness and Taxi Driver)
Elmer Bernstein
Lalo Shifrin
also obvious, but mostly essential:
Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye)
Soul Ecstasy (The Inner Thumb)
Death Wish / The Spook Who Sat By The Door (Herbie Hancock)
Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (24 Carat Black)
Shaft in Africa (Johnny Pate)
Shaft (Isaac Hayes)
Sweet Sweetback's Baaadasssss Song (Melvin van Peebles)
Black Caesar / The Payback (James Brown)
Blacula (Gene Page)
Dynamite Brothers (Charles Earland)
Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack)
Foxy Brown / The Mack (Willie Hutch)
Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)
Nuestra Cosa (Our Latin Thing) by the Fania All-Stars
Wildstyle / Breakin' / Beat Street
Spaghetti Western / Giallo / poliziesco / exploitation film sountracks aplenty (Morricone, Piero Umiliani, Francesco de Masi, Bruno Nicolai, Piccioni, Ortolani...)
The Harder They Come (and, to a lesser extent, Rockers)
Ghost Dog
Beatles (those count, don't they?)
Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder / Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances A Sophie / Miles Davis L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud / Modern Jazz Quartet various
John Barry
Bernhard Herrmann (Hitchcock bizness and Taxi Driver)
Elmer Bernstein
Lalo Shifrin
also obvious, but mostly essential:
Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye)
Soul Ecstasy (The Inner Thumb)
Death Wish / The Spook Who Sat By The Door (Herbie Hancock)
Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (24 Carat Black)
Shaft in Africa (Johnny Pate)
Shaft (Isaac Hayes)
Sweet Sweetback's Baaadasssss Song (Melvin van Peebles)
Black Caesar / The Payback (James Brown)
Blacula (Gene Page)
Dynamite Brothers (Charles Earland)
Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack)
Foxy Brown / The Mack (Willie Hutch)
Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)
Nuestra Cosa (Our Latin Thing) by the Fania All-Stars
Wildstyle / Breakin' / Beat Street
Spaghetti Western / Giallo / poliziesco / exploitation film sountracks aplenty (Morricone, Piero Umiliani, Francesco de Masi, Bruno Nicolai, Piccioni, Ortolani...)
The Harder They Come (and, to a lesser extent, Rockers)
Ghost Dog
Beatles (those count, don't they?)
Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder / Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances A Sophie / Miles Davis L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud / Modern Jazz Quartet various