All-star soundtrack for Dan Klores' film Black Magic creates a stirring companion for the documentary, which examines the civil rights movement of the 1960s through the remembrances of basketball coaches and players active at historically black colleges during the era. The CD features the Classic Soul and R&B recordings by artists including Ray Charles, Arthur Conley, Earth, Wind & Fire, Booker T. & the MGs, Tower of Power and others. Jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, actor Samuel L. Jackson and the NBA's Chris Paul provide narration for BLACK MAGIC. Among those interviewed are coaches Bobby Cremins and John Chaney, player/coach Avery Johnson, players Ben Wallace and Charles Oakley with historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates. The film is produced by former New York Knick Earl 'the Pearl' Monroe and Dan Klore.

Tracklist:

C'Mon Children - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Boot-Leg - Booker T. & the MG's
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Teasin' - Cornell Dupree
Hey Little Girl - Professor Longhair & His New Orleans Boys
Mess Around - Ray Charles
Morning After - The Mar-Keys
Ghetto - Graham Central Station
Love the Life You Live - Black Heat
What Is Hip? - Tower of Power
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays
Pick up the Pieces - The Average White Band

UPC: 081227993672
Label: Rhino
Release Date: 3.11.08
Format: CD

Black Magic - Black Magic (Original Soundtrack) (CD)