Death Wish (soundtrack)
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Death Wish is a soundtrack album
by Herbie Hancock
featuring music composed for Dino De Laurentis' film Death Wish
released in 1974 on Columbia Records
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Soundtrack album
A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...
by Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
featuring music composed for Dino De Laurentis' film Death Wish
Death Wish (film)
Death Wish is a 1974 crime thriller film loosely based on the novel Death Wish by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter is sexually assaulted by muggers.The film was...
released in 1974 on Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
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Track listing
- "Death Wish (Main Title)" - 6:14
- "Joanna's Theme" - 4:46
- "Do a Thing" - 2:13
- "Paint Her Mouth" - 2:17
- "Rich Country" - 3:46
- "Suite Revenge: a) Striking Back, b) Riverside Park, c) the Alley" - 9:25
- "Ochoa Knose" - 2:08
- "Party People" - 3:33
- "Fill Your Hand" - 6:16
- All compositions by Herbie Hancock
Personnel
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: conductor, arranger (tracks 1, 2, 5, and 6b)