Curtis Mayfield News

When I met Jaspers' Jeremy Rasik and Kiley Bobbitt at the Engine Room for our interview one afternoon, we sat down with some of the best beers the bar has to offer and, with a "cheers," they drank and talked enthusiastically about music, theirs or otherwise, namedropping everyone from Curtis Mayfield and Chet Baker to Dirty Projectors and Kaki ...

VARIOUS ARTISTS / "People Get Ready Mixtape" Source: Breath of Life - " 03 People Get Ready Mixtape.mp3 Curtis Lee Mayfield tuned his guitar to the black keys on the piano.

"The blog your favorite blogger reads...." Tuesday, October 13, 2009 New mixtape: DJ Chorizo - Chorizo Chunks #5 What's in the mix as broken down by Chorizo : "I started the mix with all Dilla productions then went into soul/funk/jazz/afrobeat/etc. [and played] tracks from: J Dilla, Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, Slum Village, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, ...

Mayer Hawthorne's "A Strange Arrangement" is one of the most unlikely albums of the year.

The heat wave plaguing Orlando is finally taking a brief sabbatical on this Saturday night as Kow finishes a sound check before their set at Barbarella.

Mayer Hawthorne isn't the first stage name for genre-hopper Andrew Cohen. For years, he performed under the name Haircut as part of the California hip-hop trio Now On and Michigan-based crew Athletic Mic League.

The Third Annual Brew Fest will take place tomorrow from 2 to 10:30 p.m. at the Amesbury Sports Park, 12 South Hunt Road.

Song stylist Charles Wilson's latest contemporary take on retro-soul should please any fan of beach music, Philly soul or Motown.

Duff McKagan's column appears every Thursday on Reverb. On Mondays he writes about what's in heavy rotation on his iPod.

Cliff Richard is a rock'n'roll pioneer, an accidental maker of experimental pop, and Britain's best exponent of sophisticated MOR.

Here's a question to get the ol' work-week brain juices flowing: Between Super Fly and Shaft , which blaxploitation film has the better theme song? They're both the work of masters of funk and soul, with iconic - and endlessly sampled/parodied - intros and lyrics that provide a badass dossier on their subjects.

Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mayer Hawthorne's style of retro soul hearkens back to such mid-century masters as Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield.

These Nashville-based high ministers of retro-groove - known for their muscular live sermons - broaden their gospel on CD #2, throwing horny Memphis soul arrangements like the funky done-broke-up Curtis Mayfield ballad "If I Had Known" and the slinky "I Got Love " into their bad-ass percolating mix.

Every couple of weeks, we use this space to deliver a brief reminder of the existence of StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds .

Perhaps because he didn't cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown's stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield's talents and contributions have yet to be fully recognized.

Charting Mayer Hawthorne's rise from hip-hop DJ to retro-soul buzz-boy. Published on September 01, 2009 at 8:07pm Schicko From samples to soul.

His kids get a kick out of their iPod shuffles, but Ben Greenman fondly remembers the old days, when as a 10-year-old music lover he'd spend his time rummaging for treasures through the funk bins at local music stores.

Van is an artist who has absorbed all the strains of American popular music and recapitulated them in his own unique voice.

Los Angeles-via-Ann Arbor singer/DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist Mayer Hawthorne basically does everything on A Strange Arrangement , his debut full-length for Stones Throw.

Forty years of soul masterfully merge in Maxwell's first disc in eight years. There's Marvin Gaye sentimentality, Curtis Mayfield insistency, Prince love pangs and R. Kelly suite threads.