Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Curtis Mayfield’s musical legacy and revisit audio & video highlights from his career below! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Biography: 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 […]
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Roberta Flack to Make Rare Appearance At GRAMMY Awards | American Songwriter
In a press release earlier this week, the Recording Academy® announced its 2020 Special Merit Awards recipients. The Lifetime Achievement Award honorees include Roberta Flack. The legendary musician and singer will make a rare public appearance to attend the GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at Los Angeles’ STAPLES Center. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I am […]
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Donny Hathaway’s Daughter Lalah Is Finally Ready to Honor Him in Concert | The New York Times
Forty years after the groundbreaking soul singer’s death, his daughter will perform a full show of his music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
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Kem and Maze deliver fond and fitting farewell concert for Tom Joyner | The St. Louis American
Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American, The St. Louis American [dropcap]Urban[/dropcap] radio pioneer and syndicated morning show personality Tom Joyner sent shockwaves across the airwaves two years ago when he announced that he would be stepping down from his long-running syndicated morning show. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m putting in my two-year notice,” Joyner said on […]
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Stevie Wonder’s Close Friend Reveals He Is Suffering ‘Health Challenges’ | Essence
The legendary singer is rumored to be struggling with his health, though his reps admit he is “doing better.”
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The Man They Called ‘Trane’, Remembering A Jazz Giant | uDiscoverMusic
Richard Havers, uDiscoverMusic [dropcap]John[/dropcap] Coltrane died on 17 July 1967 having given more to jazz in his 40 years than many who live a much longer life. His music has been an inspiration to many rock musicians as well as younger jazz musicians and his album, A Love Supreme, is one of the acknowledged masterpieces […]
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Giving Up the Funk: George Clinton says goodbye to the road | Entertainment Weekly
Rodney Carmichael, Entertainment Weekly Martin Schoeller/August. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Funk has left the building. Well, technically, the Funk has only retired to a room adjacent to the stage where his masseuse awaits. “I need my massage,” George Clinton says. At 77, his pre-concert ritual is a lot different than it used to be: No illicit […]
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The Story Of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’ | NPR
By the early 1970s, Stevie Wonder had already spent nearly a decade churning out hits for Motown Records as Little Stevie. But at age 22 he no longer wanted to follow the Motown formula, a formula designed to produce hit singles rather than innovation. So Wonder struck out on his own. Over the next decade, […]
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Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! review – poetry in motion | The Guardian
She might be an up-and-coming soul singer, but US poet and activist Jamila Woods is a team player. Her second album is also a showcase for other people’s work. Each song on this engaged but accessible record memorialises a figure from the African diaspora – often lesser-known poets, or figures like Miles and Basquiat. […]
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The O’Jays Give the People What They Want for the Last Time | Rolling Stone
After a lengthy breaking from recording, the group known for Seventies hits like “Back Stabbers” returned to the studio to make one final album
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