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...My party playlist includes “Got to Give It Up” by Marvin Gaye, “Move On Up” by Curtis Mayfield and “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees. An indulgence I would never forgo is getting a manicure....
...Works by Prince and Curtis Mayfield are in the mix and young jazz star guests underline the music’s contemporary edge....
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...Curtis Mayfield’s film-soundtrack dispatch from the streets of black America, Super Fly, came out six months later. What would soon become known as krautrock took shape with Neu!’...
...In reality you’re as likely to hear Curtis Mayfield as Loyle Carner on 6. Quality standards are criticised by some — including me, when it comes to BBC news....
...The set begins with a West-African-flavoured reimagining of Curtis Mayfield’s shooting tragedy “Billy Jack”....
...As the set continues, the quartet capture the weight of Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman” with stark textures and forbidding tones....
...The evening’s only cover followed, Curtis Mayfield’s “Here But I’m Gone”, re-arranged by trumpeter Collins with twisty unison brass, and then “Mami Wata” from Isang, George’s debut album....
...In the 1970s, Curtis Mayfield sang about drugs and crime in the ghetto. In the 1980s, two presidents waged a “war on drugs”....
...The smooth-toned Kiwanuka acquires the pleading urgency of Curtis Mayfield on “Black Man in a White World”, while a husky edge enters his voice on the title track, framed by dramatic strings and a stately...
...Hayes’s million-selling refashioning of a country pop hit opened a radical space into which Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and others soon stepped....
...They performed covers of songs by Hank Williams, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline, John Lee Hooker, Fats Domino and Pete Seeger....
...The gloom merchants have taken over Manchester’s Mayfield Depot, a former railway station that has been deserted since 1986, to deliver a double dose of darkness....
...Jazz Soul Seven Impressions of Curtis Mayfield (Challenge)...
...Michael Kiwanuka summons the voice of Curtis Mayfield but not the social comment, the flowing melodies of Nick Drake but not the lyricism....
...Cole World is largely self-produced, with samples ranging from obscure Finnish jazz to Curtis Mayfield. Unlike many mainstream rap albums, the results aren’t overblown or full of filler....
...Mayfield’s Superfly (1972), Frank Zappa’s Freak Out!...
...Mayfield with “Move On Up”....
...Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move On Up’, which was used in Brown’s introductory video, was part of the Obama campaign. Great tune though....
...If it’s no dance number, she adds that she’ll be playing Curtis Mayfield’s motivational classic “Move on Up” that night too....
...The repertoire is also a mix, with Michael Jackson and Curtis Mayfield snuggling alongside a tribute that welds snippets of Coltrane themes into something new....
...Mayfield (Superfly) and Randy Newman (Sail Away)....
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