Review: Malcolm X – Soundtrack

Malcolm X – Soundtrack (Warners/Reprise BS 2619)

This soundtrack is one of the few ever to hit the market that has any worth.

The album flows brilliantly between original recordings of Malcolm X’s lectures to Last Poets material to Billie Holiday songs. It is exactly what it claims to be: an audio drama.

The highlight of the LP is James Earl Jones’ convincing oral autobiography readings stringing together all the selections.

Beautiful as this album is, I wonder what Malcolm would have thought about the Kinney Corporation producing and marketing this album. All the proceeds, however, are going to his fund.

Courtesy of the Door (aka San Diego Door) – Cameron Crowe –  July 7, 1972  – July 20, 1972