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24 items by Vince Aletti

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  Where I'm Coming From | ALBUM REVIEW

  Ambitious, personal albums may be a glut on the market elsewhere, but at Motown they're something new. These, from two of the Corporation's Finest, represent a subversive concept, allowed only to producers the overseerstars of Motown's corporate...

  August 5, 1971 12:00 AM ET
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  Maybe Tomorrow | ALBUM REVIEW

  This might be referred to as a "mature" album, and that's its major disappointment. Rather than an intensification of the Jackson 5's earlier work, Maybe Tomorrow is a cooling off — carefully considered and well-timed, but just...

  July 22, 1971 12:00 AM ET
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  Donny Hathaway | ALBUM REVIEW

  Donny Hathaway is one of the most important black performers to emerge in recent years. Important in the sense that Isaac Hayes, Sly Stone, Funkadelic/Parliament or the Last Poets are important: influential (for better or worse), far-ranging...

  June 10, 1971 12:00 AM ET
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  Signed, Sealed and Delivered | ALBUM REVIEW

  Any of the 12 songs on Stevie Wonder's new album holds more creative singing than you're likely to find in another performer's entire body of work. And while everything may not reach the energy level of the...

  January 7, 1971 12:00 AM ET