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All-star soundtrack for Dan Klores' film Black Magic creates a stirring companion for the documentary, which examines the civil rights movement of the 1960s through the remembrances of basketball coaches and players active at historically black colleges during the era. The CD features the Classic Soul and R&B recordings by artists including Ray Charles, Arthur Conley, Earth, Wind & Fire, Booker T. & the MGs, Tower of Power and others. Jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, actor Samuel L. Jackson and the NBA's Chris Paul provide narration for BLACK MAGIC. Among those interviewed are coaches Bobby Cremins and John Chaney, player/coach Avery Johnson, players Ben Wallace and Charles Oakley with historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates. The film is produced by former New York Knick Earl 'the Pearl' Monroe and Dan Klore.