The Split (1968)

Starring

• Jim Brown
• Diahann Carroll
• Ernest Borgnine
• Julie Harris
• Gene Hackman
• Jack Klugman
• Warren Oates
• James Whitmore
• Donald Sutherland

Storyline
When professional thief McClain (Jim Brown) returns to Los Angeles, he meets up with old flame Gladys (Julie Harris) and hatches a scheme to rob a sports arena during a sold-out game. McClain rounds up a driver (Jack Klugman), a safecracker (Warren Oates), a sharpshooter (Donald Sutherland) and some muscle (Ernest Borgnine), and the group successfully pulls off the heist. Trouble arises, however, when a dirty cop (Gene Hackman) steals the money, and the gang thinks McClain is responsible.

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Quincy Jones - The Split (1968)

Elmer Bernstein - The Liberation Of L.B. Jones OST (1969)

The Liberation of L.B. Jones - Elmer Bernstein Cinema Records LP-8009, 1969

Tracklist
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
Track 04
Track 05
Track 06
Track 07
Track 08
Track 09
Track 10
Track 11
Track 12

Blaxploitation.com
Only released on the infamous Cinema label, Bernstein's excellent funky jazz soundtrack for obscure blaxploitation film 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones' takes up an entire side of an LP otherwise devoted to a typical genre soundtrack to Paul Newman's hit movie 'From The Terrace'. The music for LB Jones is a revelation - tight, brassy, bright and groovy, it's up there with Bullitt in feel and pace. Sometimes using organ, sometimes sax, but always groovy, this is a release not to be missed although the LP is now hard to find. The persistent rumour about this release is that the master tapes were 'borrowed' by Bernstein's tennis trainer!

Funkbacks commentThis rip omits the music From The Terrace, but like that release has no names for the tracks which leads me to conclude that It's a vinyl rip. I've scoured the internet for any info but there doesn't seem to be any. If there surfaces new info or word of a CD pressing please post it here. This music is Baaadassss!!! The beautiful coverpic was made over at the blog Frankly Yes aka Isbumsplace that's dedicated to resurrect the lost and rare to the public. Great chums w. attention to detail!

Provided by Dusty over @ Frankly Yes through Funkback

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William Wyler - The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

Starring:

• Roscoe Lee Browne
• Lola Falana 
• Yaphet Kotto
• Lee J. Cobb
• Anthony Zerbe
• Zara Cully 
• Fayard Nicholas
• Lee Majors
• Barbara Hershey
• Arch Johnson
• Lauren Jones 
• Brenda Sykes

Storyline
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and various stereotypes. Written by Sterling Silliphant ("In the Heat of the Night"). Director William Wyler's final film. 

Disco 9000 [a.k.a. Fass Black] (1977)

Starring:

• John Poole
• Jeannie Bell
• Harold Nicholas 
• Sidney Bagby
• Nicholas Lewis
• Shirley Washington
• Johnnie Taylor
• Rodney Winfield
• Beverly Ann
• Cal Wilson
• Paula Sills
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
• Harold Daniels
• D'Urville Martin

Storyline
Fass Black (John Poole, Death Drug) owns the Disco 9000, a neon-lit penthouse dance club that’s one of the top nightspots in Los Angeles. He also owns Disco 9000 Records, a successful label that provides the music for this venue. A rival mogul ascertains that his company can’t get a hit record in the Los Angeles market without exposure at the Disco 9000, but he fails to convince Black to play his company’s records at the club. So his goons make life difficult for Black...