Gordon Parks Jr.

  [youtube id=”9hBE6NL3KWg”] Curtis Mayfield’s funky soundtrack to Gordon Parks, Jr.’s story of inner city drug dealer Priest, played by Ron O’Neal  is one of the most favored and influential soundtracks from the blaxploitation era. Mayfield’s liquid falsetto, multi-perspective narrative and warm rhythm with the right amount of horns madeContinue Reading