Isaac Hayes: Shaft (Stax 2659 007)
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 6 November 1971
IT WAS obvious, the way he was going musically, that Hayes' next step would be into the film-score scene. His craft as a man who has always given his work a scope and width comes to the fore on his soundtrack album of a film that's been described as a "black James Bond".
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