Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 - December 26, 1999) was an American soul, funk and R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film "Superfly." From these works and others, he was highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a bassist, pianist, saxophonist and drummer. Wikipedia
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A brilliant songwriter, vocalist, instrumentalist, producer and arranger, he had the aphoristic grace of a natural poet who was steeped in the rhetoric of the black church. archive.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/07/aprcurtis/index....
Forget the harps--"Move On Up" is Mayfield's most explicit political song, "If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go" revises the usual gospel pieties, and "Miss Black America" has its charms, too. www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=294&name=Curtis...
Jerry Butler , Major Lance , Gene Chandler and Walter Jackson are among the many Chicago-based singers benefiting from Mayfield's songwriting skills. www.soulwalking.co.uk/Curtis%20Mayfield.html
Curtis Mayfield on Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews, which contains reviews of about 4,000 records - rock and roll, pop, jazz, funk, hip hop, Latin - plus concerts, books about music, Top 10 lists, and generally a whole lot of ranting www.warr.org/mayfield.html
Composer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield, who had a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, has died, aged 57. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/579113.stm
Mayfield's next lp: The Great Ratsby . C America Today [Curtom, 1975] I had hoped the featureless doodling of his post- Super Fly albums just meant he was treading water while transferring from Viewlex to Warner Comm. www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=294&name=Cu...