The Final Comedown [Original Soundtrack] cover

The Final Comedown [Original Soundtrack]

Released

Jazz guitarist Grant Green wrote and produced jazz label Blue Note’s first soundtrack for The Final Comedown, a little-remembered drama from 1972. The effortlessly cool and weightless groove of the title track is well known to funk and acid jazz aficionados and ‘Afro Jazz’ pursues a similar funky-jazz path. Elsewhere mournful pieces like ‘Luanna’s Theme’ or ‘Father’s Lament’ expertly blend soul jazz with orchestration and Green also includes some high tempo percussion and atmospheric mood tracks alongside the obligatory wah wah/congas chase-scene tracks. 

Harold Heath

Recommended by

Suggestions
Plug Me In cover

Plug Me In

Eddie Harris
Sassy Soul Strut cover

Sassy Soul Strut

Lou Donaldson
Houston Express cover

Houston Express

Houston Person
Le Defi cover

Le Defi

Gaspanic, Matthew Herbert, Various Artists
Acid Jazz Vol. 2 cover

Acid Jazz Vol. 2

Various Artists
Cool Breeze cover

Cool Breeze

Solomon Burke
Doin’ Their Own Thing cover

Doin’ Their Own Thing

Maceo & All the King's Men
Trouble Man cover

Trouble Man

Marvin Gaye
Sun Goddess cover

Sun Goddess

Ramsey Lewis
Right on Brother cover

Right on Brother

Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
Come to My Garden cover

Come to My Garden

Minnie Riperton