The New Pulse Jazz Band - Ghetto Suite (180-Gram Vinyl) (Import)

Limited 180g Vinyl Edition (1000 copies) with obi strip Rare 1972 Conceptual Funk-Soul-Jazz album Comes with extensive sleeve notes FIRST EVER VINYL REISSUE Galt MacDermot (1928-2018) was an award-winning Canadian-American composer, pianist, writer of classical music and theatrical pieces. MacDermot also composed music for several film soundtracks (like the 1970 blaxploitation film ‘Cotton Comes To Harlem’) and released several exceptional jazz and funk albums on his own label Kilmarnock Records.   He is best known for his work on the Grammy winning 1967 musical Hair (which also produced several number-one singles like “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In”) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971) for which he won a Tony Award. In 2009 Galt MacDermot was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and in 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award.   In 1979, MacDermot formed the New Pulse Jazz Band, which performed and recorded his original music. Galt MacDermot’s music is extremely popular