Raphael Saadiq's The Way I See It album is satisfying for both old school heads and today's hip music buyers: his background as a musician, singer and songwriter is steeped in a love for R&B married with a commitment to making his own brand of expressive soul music. The Way I See It has the kind of smooth musical flow associated with great records made by pioneering producers at famous R&B companies like Motown, Invictus and Brunswick. From the foot-tapping opening track, "Sure Hope You Mean It" to the head-shaking reflective closer "Sometimes," Raphael delivers a present day potent ode to a bygone era. Loyal Tony! Toni! Toné! fans will particularly appreciate "100 Yard Dash," which Raphael describes as "a juke joint, Booker T.-type groove. I reflected back to my first T!T!T! albums when I was singing in a high tenor voice." Raphael grins when talking about the hypnotic "Love That Girl": "Man, that's all about the swing...the way girls swing their hips! It's the type of song that will make people move and that shuffle beat reminds me of those ladies I used to see playing drums in church!" With its Motown-flavored tambourine-featured beat, "Never Give You Up" is what Raphael calls "my three generations song. It includes C.J., this youngster from Baltimore that I'm working with and Stevie Wonder. Now comes The Way I See It, a masterful collection of new material that speaks to Raphael Saadiq's deep love for rhythm and blues.

The wait for D’Angelo’s new studio album is almost over: Black Messiah, the long-awaited follow-up to 2000’s Voodoo, will be available for purchase on iTunes beginning Midnight on Monday.
Black Messiah spans 12 tracks and includes contributions from The Roots’ Questlove, Q-Tip, and Kendra Foster (Parliament Funkadelic).
Of the album title, D’Angelo said, “For me the title is about all of us. It’s about the world. It’s about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.”

1998年，Columbia公司推出Maxwell的第二张专辑《Embrya》。整张专辑风格迥异，感性的陈述着Maxwell的每一个想法，时而将您带入空旷、寂静的山野，时而又穿梭在迷幻、繁华的都市。Maxwell所得给你的就是一种感觉，一种闭上眼睛找寻真正自我的感觉。

Corinne Bailey Rae is the eponymous debut album by English singer Corinne Bailey Rae. It was released in February 2006 in the UK and Ireland and in March in Europe. It went straight in at number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the UK Urban Albums Chart.
"Like a Star" was the lead single off the album. It was released in a limited-edition format in 2005, peaking inside the UK Singles Chart at number thirty-four. The second single, "Put Your Records On", went straight at number two in February 2006 and also hit number one on the UK Urban Singles chart. The follow-up single, "Trouble Sleeping", was released in May 2006, peaking at number forty in the UK and the fourth single was a re-release of "Like a Star", which peaked at thirty-two. The fifth single (fourth song released as a single) was "I'd Like To", released in the UK on 12 February 2007. Also on this date, the album was re-released with a bonus disc including some of the B-sides and remixes used on previous singles, as well as three new tracks, one of which, a cover of Björk's 1993 "Venus as a Boy", which only previously appeared on a covermount for Q magazine. Several songs from the album appear in the 2006 Peter O'Toole film Venus.
The album was the thirteenth best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2006, with sales of over 739,000 copies.
Corinne's Live in London & New York official website announced that the album has sold over three million copies worldwide.

《Channel Orange》目前获得的评价都十分积极。《娱乐周刊》的梅丽莎·马尔斯（Melissa Maerz）称赞了该专辑中的情歌，并认为他的音乐完美地攫取了话题的关键。[10] 《时代》的梅丽莎·洛克（Melissa Locker）则称奥申为“一颗冉冉升起的演奏家新星”，并称他的歌词“将该专辑从一张仅仅是好过一般水准的节奏布鲁斯唱片提升为一张充满才华[...]的成熟专辑，特别是考虑到它的创作者却如此年轻”。[11]AllHipHop.com的乔·加西亚（Jon Garcia）批评一些人将关注点放在围绕奥申的争议上，而不是关心他的音乐所表达的信息，“弗兰克·奥申通过《Channel Orange》，将自己置于音乐流派区隔和身份标签之上。这不是一个夏季休闲音乐，也不是深刻的音乐，亦不是灵乐，也不是奇怪的音乐，更不是同志音乐”。[12]The Lantern则在点评该专辑时称，“《Channel Orange》是性感的，我如果要形象的描述，它就像是80年代城市的夜晚。这就是它给我的感觉。‘Sierra Leone’就是一个好例证……我在韦斯特2010年的巨著《My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy》之后，还从未被如此感动过”。评论者给给专辑的评级是“A”。[13]Billboard.com发表的专辑评论也趋向正面，表示“……无论在该专辑中奥申是怎样的情绪，这些歌曲听起来都太棒了。标准化的音乐制作流程并没有扼杀歌手那多变的声线，这些声音绕梁三日，给听者以前所未有的感受，《Channel Orange》中没有一首烂歌，尽管有些时候奥申可以把持的更好。”评论者表示“Pyramids”是该专辑的中流砥柱，并且盛赞了它的结构。

Back to Love is the fifth studio album from R&B singer, Anthony Hamilton. It was released December 13, 2011 via RCA Records. The lead single from the album is Woo, which was released October 2011. The album features writing production from the likes of Babyface, Dre & Vidal, Kelvin Wooten, Mike City, Avila Brothers, as well as Hamilton himself.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite is the debut album by American R&B singer-songwriter Maxwell. It was recorded in 1994 and 1995, then released on April 2, 1996, by Columbia Records.

John Legend获得过8项格莱美奖提名，并获得其中的三个奖项。这是他最新发行的专辑 "Once Again"， 首波主打单曲“Save Room”感觉比较像摇滚多过R&B风格的歌曲“Heaven”是第二首EP单曲。

美国新灵魂乐歌手John Legend原名John Stephens，“John Legend”这个名字只是儿时朋友们送的绰号。John Legend出生在美国俄亥俄州的Springfield，家庭的音乐氛围对于John Legend日后走向音乐方面产生了重要的作用。John Legend的家里有一台钢琴，John Legend从五岁的时候开始就利用这台钢琴学着练习弹奏歌曲，到了他八九岁的时候就已经开始在当地的一些教堂里为教堂唱诗班弹钢琴伴奏了，通过奶奶教授给他的一些福音音乐歌曲，不久之后John Legend已经开始独立的演奏歌曲了，到了高中的时候，John Legend已经开始录制一些小型唱片了。John Legend后来开始听一些Jodeci，Boyz II Men，LL Cool J的音乐，这些音乐对于他后来的个人音乐风格也产生了一定的影响。16岁以后，John Legend离开了家乡来到了宾夕法尼亚大学主修英文专业，在这里除了学习之外他依然活跃于音乐场合，他经常在学校的一些才艺演出上表演，在费城外的Bethel A.M.E.教堂他已经成为了教堂唱诗班的导演，直到他发片前的几个月，他在这所教堂担任唱诗班导演长达九年。