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Up From the Basement: Unreleased Tracks, Volumes 1 & 2
2002 · 24 tracks
Hair
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Woman Is Sweeter/Shapes of Rhythm
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Arcane Borough
2026

GUTTERBALL
2025

Woman Is Sweeter (Original Sound Track) (Stereo Master Tape Transfer)
2023

The Black Songs
2022

Leap of Faith
2021

Live in Nashville
2021

The Rhythmic Genius of Bernard Purdie 2020
2020

Galt MacDermot Conducts Two Gentlemen of Verona
2020

Haircuts
2019

The Special at Wilensky's
2019

Shakespeare + Macdermot
2018

O, Babylon!
2017

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
2017

The Joker of Seville Musical
2017

Hair (All Star Studio Cast)
2017

Live at Joe's Pub
2017

Salome
2017

Air & Angels
2017

The Solo Genius of Seldon Powell (feat. Seldon Powell)
2017

Uncle Shout
2016

Isabel's a Jezebel Musical
2016

Hair (The New Broadway Cast Recording)
2016

English Experience
2016

Dude Musical
2016

Pulse On!!
2016

New Pulse III (feat. New Pulse Jazz Band)
2016

Lost Conquest (Conquista Perdida)
2016

Boogie Man
2015

Art Gallery Jazz
2015

Fergus MacRoy, Mystic
2015

Almost an Hour With Fergus MacRoy
2015

Nell Carter Sings the Gospel
2015

Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica
2015

Gone Tomoro Musical
2015

Goddess Wheel
2014

Fergus MacRoy At the Homestead Upright
2014

Ghetto Suite
2014

La Novela
2014

The Nucleus
2014

The Word
2011

The Tinderbox
2010

The Karl Marx Play
2010

Sun
2009

Many Faces of Song
2009

Live at the St. George Theatre
2006

Asian Suite
2005

Galt MacDermot in Film
2004
Love & Rock Musical Hair
2003

Purdie As A Picture
2003

Waiting For The Limo
2003

Paul Laurence Dunbar in Song
2001

Foolish Lover
2001

Corporation
2000

Spotted Owl
2000

Shapes of Rhythm/Woman Is Sweeter
2000

El Niño
1999

The Thomas Hardy Songs
1997

The Human Comedy (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
1997

Reflections of a Radically Right Wing Composer
1992
Cotton Comes To Harlem (Original Motion Picture Score)
1970
Shapes of Rhythm
1966

Rhino
EP · 2026

Jealous of the Rain
Single · 2025

Planets
Single · 2025

Jerome Sings Fergus
Single · 2025

Who Is Sylvia
Single · 2024

Ah New York (Instrumental)
Single · 2024

These Are the Things I Cannot Change
Single · 2023

Keep a-Pluggin' Away
Single · 2023

The Gospel
Single · 2023

what did you DO to yourself?
Single · 2023

The Lord's Prayer
Single · 2022

Guardian Angel
Single · 2022

The Twins
Single · 2021

Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day
Single · 2021

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why
Single · 2021

What Magic Can We Show the Children
Single · 2020

The Sun Always Shines for the Cool
Single · 2014
More about Galt MacDermot
Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928) is a Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song "African Waltz" in 1960. His most successful musicals have been Hair (1967; its cast album also won a Grammy) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971). MacDermot has also written music for film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music, and his music has been sampled in hit hip-hop songs and albums. MacDermot was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of a Canadian diplomat. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada). He received a Bachelor of Music from Cape Town University, South Africa and made a study of African music his specialty. He also studied the piano privately with Neil Chotem.
MacDermot won his first Grammy Award for the Cannonball Adderley recording of his song "African Waltz" (the title track of the album of the same name) in 1960. He moved to New York City in 1964 where, three years later, he wrote the music for the hit musical Hair, which he later adapted for the 1979 film. Its Broadway cast album won a Grammy Award in 1969. His next musicals were Isabel's a Jezebel (1970) and Who the Murderer Was (1970), which featured British progressive rock band Curved Air. MacDermot had another hit with the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. For that show, MacDermot was nominated for a Tony for best music and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. His later musicals, however, including Dude and Via Galactica (both 1973) and The Human Comedy (1984), have not been successful on Broadway. MacDermot's film soundtracks include Cotton Comes to Harlem, a 1970 blaxploitation film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques and Redd Foxx, based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name; Rhinoceros (1974) starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and directed by original Broadway Hair director Tom O'Horgan; and Mistress (1992). His composition "Coffee Cold" was heard in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair. He writes his own orchestrations and arrangements for his theatre and film scores. MacDermot's music is popular with collectors of jazz and funk. Working with jazz musicians such as Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Lewis and Idris Muhammad, MacDermot created pieces that prefigured the funk material of James Brown. In recent decades, his work has become popular with hip-hop musicians including Busta Rhymes, who sampled "Space" from MacDermot's 1969 record Woman Is Sweeter for chart-topper "Woo hah!!", and Run DMC, who sampled the Hair song "Where Do I Go?" for their Grammy Award-winning "Down with the King". Handsome Boy Modelling School, DJ Vadim, DJ Premier and Oh No have all sampled the same segment from "Coffee Cold", from Shapes of Rhythm (1966). As part of his Special Herbs series, rapper MF Doom sampled three MacDermot songs from Woman Is Sweeter: "Cathedral" for his song "Pennyroyal", "Space" for "Cinqfoil", and "Princess Gika" for "Hyssop". In 2006, rapper Oh No released an album produced completely with MacDermot samples, entitled Exodus into Unheard Rhythms. In 1979, MacDermot formed the New Pulse Band, which performs and records his original music. The band plays as part of the on stage band in the current Broadway revival of Hair. MacDermot's work also includes ballet scores, chamber music, the Anglican liturgy, orchestral music, poetry, incidental music for plays, band repertory and opera. MacDermot was inducted into the 2009 Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Film director Jeff Lunger is in the post-production phase of a documentary on the life and work of Galt MacDermot.