Galt MacDermot
- Genre: Soundtrack
- Active: '60s - 2000s
- Instruments: Keyboards, Piano
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Galt MacDermot (born 18 December 1928 in
He is best known as the composer of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair, which ran for nearly 2000 performances in both London and New York, won a Grammy Award in 1969, and was made into a film in 1979.
MacDermot is also popular amongst collectors of jazz, funk and
film soundtracks, for the scores he created to minor productions such as Woman is
Sweeter and Rhinoceros. Working with high-calibre jazz musicians such as
Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Lewis and Idris Muhammad, MacDermot created tight, rhythmical soundtrack pieces which effectively prefigured the
funk material of James Brown. Consequently, MacDermot's work from this
period has been sampled by
On 8 August 2006, Oh No in fact released an album on Stones Throw Records, produced completely with Galt MacDermot samples, entitled Exodus into Unheard Rhythms.
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| NAME | MacDermot, Galt |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18 1928 |
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