DEATH WISH (OST)

I remember the TV ads for this movie back in the day, I would have been around 13 or so. This is the soundtrack for that movie called Death Wish starring Charles Bronson. The music here sounds nothing like Herbie Hancock so it's not worth getting for that until we get to that final track and all that orchestral and classical sounding music stops finally. THE HEADHUNTERS are the backing band you could say and that has to be Bennie Maupin then playing the only horn on here on the closer. So good. The song is called "Fill Your Hand" and it's head and shoulders above the rest. Herbie Hancock and Jerry Peters share the conducting duties on the rest of the album.

I'm just not a fan of orchestral music and to make it worse we get these sweeping disco sounds front and centre on the opener and elsewhere. I guess this is what we got with most soundtracks in the 70's, those classical and orchestral sounds. A low 3 stars for me.