Tracks

Cd1

01 03:01 Roy Ayers - Coffy Is The Color
02 02:40 Gene Page - Blacula
03 03:04 Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa
04 04:46 Willie Hutch - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
05 03:20 Don Costa - Charley
06 04:27 Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
07 03:46 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
08 03:06 J.J. Johnson - Willie Chase
09 04:42 James Brown - Down and Out In New York City
10 04:33 Quincy Jones - They Call Me Mister Tibbs
11 03:37 Martha Reeves - Keep On Movin On
12 02:39 Dennis Coffey - Theme From Black Belt Jones
13 05:25 Curtis Mayfield - Freddies Dead
14 02:21 The Blackbyrds - Wilfords Gone
15 02:25 Willie Hutch - Theme Of Foxy Brown
16 02:48 Isaac Hayes - Run Fay Run

Cd2

01 04:37 Isaac Hayes - Shaft
02 05:02 Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
03 03:45 Joe Simon - Theme From Cleopatra Jones
04 02:32 Johnny Pate - You Cant Even Walk In The Park
05 03:26 Brer Soul & Earth, Wind and Fire - Sweetbacks
Theme
06 03:17 James Brown - Make It Good To Yourself
07 09:04 Isaac Hayes - Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile
08 01:40 Grant Green - Travelling To Get To Doc
09 04:58 Booker T and Mgs - Time Is Tight
10 02:52 Roy Ayers - Aragon
11 03:00 Edwin Starr - Easin In
12 04:51 Gordon Staples - Strung Out
13 03:20 Nat Dove and The Devils - Zombie March
14 03:08 The Impressions - Make A Resolution
15 02:12 Solomon Burke and Gene Page - The Bus
16 02:21 Jack Ashford - Las Vegas Strut
17 03:32 Don Julian - Lay It On Your Head
18 02:12 Galt Macdermot - Ed and Digger
Totals
34 122:29 min

Release Notes:

The Black Action Films of the early 1970s gave the
Hollywood industry 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 Quincy
Jones, Johnny Pate and JJ Johnson.

In the early 1970s, Black Action Films exploded into the
cinema with three extremely successful films - Shaft,
Super Fly and Sweet Sweetbacks Badasssss Song. The most
profound statement of these films was their actual existence
- black actors and black directors entering the previously
closed Hollywood film industry.

Black Action Films were a representation of politically
everything that had gone before and stylistically of
everything that was current. Civil rights, Malcolm X, Martin
Luther King, Black Power, Black Panthers, Vietnam sit
alongside the criminal worlds of policemen, private
investigators, bail bondsmen and the criminals, drug
dealers, pimps and hustlers that they parole.

Can U Dig It? brings you everything you always wanted to
know about black action films. Aside from the amazing music
(brought together for the first time ever), it also comes
with a 100-page (yes, 100-page!) book featuring scores of
original photographs, film posters, text and descriptions of
all the films.

This is an essential Soul Jazz Records release!

Enjoy!

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