Maxwell at Press Conference 4/2009
“Maxwell describes “BLACKsummers’night” as the first of three albums, one a year, and the next two have already been written and largely recorded — though he expects to revisit them as his tour band tightens up. “BlackSUMMERS’night,” he said, will be “full-blown gospel, but gospel turned on its head a little bit.” And the final one, “Blacksummers’NIGHT,” is intended to be “the slow jam record of all time, hopefully of all time ever,” he said, chuckling, “like you might have to include condoms in it.”
Three albums in three years would be more prolific than he has ever been. “Hip-hop has marred people’s perspective on music because it comes out so fast,” he said. “Soul music is not like that. It’s not 16 bars. It’s not about the latest sneaker. I’m not here to talk about things that you can specifically go, ‘This is this moment.’ I’m supposed to say something that can be said all the time, no matter when. And that takes a lot of time.”” Jon Pareles, New York Times
