An interesting but not entirely satisfying album from Quincy Jones. This LP features one of Donny Hathaway's finest songs, 'Little Ghetto Boy', a moving track of such beauty that it deserves a much wider audience. The rest of the LP is an uneven mix of short traditional jazz and funk instrumental tracks.

Overall Rating: 3
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Main theme | Basie | String segue | Vegetable wagon | Harlem dawn | Scratchy record | Explosion | Hearse to graveyard | Switch "Charleston Blue" | Come back Basie | Detective's goof | Gravedigger Jones & Coffin Ed's funeral | String segue | Little ghetto boy | Hail to the queen | Drag queen chase | Bossa nova | Tim's high | Furniture truck | Liberation | Come back Charleston Blue |