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Maxwell's third studio album, Now, was released by Columbia Records on August 14, 2001, in the United States. Following the lukewarm radio success of his previous album, Maxwell stated he felt more comfortable with his artistic direction in the creation of this album, which does not exhibit his previous work's conceptual style. [42]
Album 1996 "Softly Softly" (Sweetback featuring Maxwell) Sweetback: 2004 "No One Else in the Room" (Nas featuring Maxwell) Street's Disciple: 2009 "Smile" (The Alchemist featuring Maxwell & Twista) Chemical Warfare: 2012 "Fire We Make" (Alicia Keys featuring Maxwell) Girl on Fire
BLACKsummers'night is Maxwell's first album since his hiatus after his third album, Now (2001), and serves as the first part of his scheduled trilogy of albums. [ 4 ] The music of BLACKsummers'night is rooted in general soul music , and it features a more straightforward musical structure than Maxwell's previous work such as Embrya (1998). [ 5 ]
"Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) is a song by American R&B/neo soul singer Maxwell, released in July 1996 by Columbia as the second single from his debut album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996). The song was written by Maxwell, and Itaal Shur, and he also produced it.
An alternate version of the song, titled "Sumthin' Sumthin': Mellosmoothe", was released as a single from the soundtrack album to the film Love Jones (1997). The soundtrack album's single peaked at number 23 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. [2] The song scored him a second UK top 40 peaking to 27 on UK Singles chart. [3]
The album's success also earned Maxwell his own MTV Unplugged special, which was a popular measure of mainstream success for recording artists in the 1990s. [11] Nick Coleman from The Independent later cited Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite as the "sexiest record of 1996", [51] while Q magazine called it "one of the very best R&B records of the '90s."
MTV Unplugged is a live EP by American neo soul singer Maxwell, released by Columbia Records in mid-1997. The album features recordings of Maxwell's performance on the MTV concert series program MTV Unplugged, filmed in New York City earlier in the year. The album includes covers of songs such as Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" and Nine Inch ...
"Pretty Wings" is a single by American singer-songwriter Maxwell, taken from his fourth studio album BLACKsummers'night. It was written and produced by Maxwell and Hod David. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song.