He has a private music teaching practice in downtown Manhattan and collaborates with a variety of creative artists of different genres, most recently with famed director Melvin Van Peebles on his 2010 theatrical production of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, in which Avram acted, as well as played tenor sax.
She also appeared in the films Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, The Wiz (as a member of the choir), as well as the film version of Don't Play Us Cheap.
In the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the main character "Sweetback" performs in a sex show.
The movie was released shortly after titles such as Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song came out.
largely derives from funk and soul music, much as Van Peebles had featured on the soundtrack to his 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
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The track included samples from Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song, as well as Alain Goraguer's soundtrack to the French science-fiction animation Fantastic Planet.