He left behind an acclaimed bounty of music, but one of his best works is his sole soundtrack, to the 1974 Blaxploitation hit (and one of Quentin Tarantino’s all-time faves) Coffy. Like ...

He wrote and produced the soundtrack for the 1973 blaxploitation film “Coffy” which starred Pam Grier. He began collaborating ...

With Roy Ayers Ubiquity, which he formed in the early 1970s, he scored his biggest hit with “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” the title track from his 1976 album. To date, that song has more ...