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In the Miles Davis band, Reggie Lucas played guitar, and it was with Reggie Lucas that James Mtume started a song writing partnership. The duo Lucas/Mtume wrote numerous tracks for various artists in the timeframe 77-82. Without a doubt, the most famous being the all-time Stephanie Mills classic, "I never knew love like this before".
18 de feb. de 2018 · Over the years, R&B and hip-hop artists have sampled Mtume’s beats and “sophisti-funk" sound. "Juicy Fruit," reached a new generation when the late The Notorious B.I.G sampled the song in 1994 ...
10 de ene. de 2022 · James Mtume, Grammy-winning "Juicy Fruit" drum legend, dead at 76. He worked with Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Roberta Flack and Lonnie Liston Smith.
9 de ene. de 2022 · Mtume teamed up with Reggie Lucas and co-wrote Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s smash hit, “The Closer I Get to You,” Stephanie Mills’ Billboard Hot 100 hit, “Never Knew Love Like This”, which won a Grammy for best R&B song and best female vocal R&B performance. At the time of the report, there is no cause of death.
10 de ene. de 2022 · He formed the band Mtume with musician Reggie Lucas and singer Tawatha Agee, releasing a series of jazz/funk/R&B records in the 1970s and 1980s. His composition ‘Juicy Fruit,” was a hit for ...
But Mtume’s fame increased dramatically when he began to focus more on songwriting and production for R&B artists, alongside frequent collaborator Reggie Lucas (d. 2018). Their song “Never Knew Love Like This Before” was a monster for Stephanie Mills, and opened the door for production work for The Spinners, Phyllis Hyman, Teddy Pendergrass and many more.
13 de may. de 2014 · Yeah, I was pursuing athletics. I was the first black Middle Atlantic AAU champion in the backstroke, so we figured the best way for me to get to college wasn’t going to be through playing ... You have to remember, as Mtume-Lucas, most of the cats were also the production band. We were doing like 10, 11 projects a year.
