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Refimprove|date=December 2010Infobox musical artist|name = Mtume|image =|image_size =|caption =|background = group_or_band|origin = New York , United States |genre = Contemporary R& B|R& B , Funk , jazz-funk , quiet storm , post-disco Allmusic|class=artist|id=p4976|pure_url=yes allmusic (((Mtume > Overview))) , retrieved on 27-12-2009.|years_active = 1978–1986|label = Third Street Records|Third Street (1973-1977) Epic Records|Epic (1978-1986)|associated_acts = Stephanie Mills , Miles Davis |current_members = James Mtume (1978-1986) Tawatha Agee (1978-1986) Raymond Jackson (1982–1986) Philip Field (1982-1986) Ed "Tree" Moore (1982-1986) Leslie Ming (1982-1986)|past_members = Hubert Eaves III (1978-1980) Reggie Lucas (1978-1980) Basil Fearington (1978-1980) Howard King (1978-1980) Mtume (pronounced em-tu-may ) was a funk and soul music|soul group that had several Rhythm and blues|R& B hit record|hits in the 1980s. Its founder, percussion ist James Mtume , previously played with Miles Davis in the 1970s. Other members of the group included Reggie Lucas and Tawatha Agee.
History
Mtume recorded three album s on the independent record label|label Third Street Records: Kawaida (1973); Alkebu-Lan (1975); and Rebirth Cycle (1977). Not finding pop music|pop or R& B record chart|chart success, they signed to major label Epic Records in 1978, releasing the albums Kiss This World Goodbye (1978), and In Search of the Rainbow Seekers (1980), which found modest success on the Hot R& B/Hip-Hop Songs|R& B chart. Their 1982 album Juicy Fruit (album)|Juicy Fruit , however, provided Mtume with its biggest hit, when Juicy Fruit (song)|the title song reached chart-topper|number one for eight weeks on the U.S. Hot R& B/Hip-Hop Songs|R& B chart .
Mtume's 1984 album You, Me, and He had a #2 R& B hit with the album's title song. Their final R& B Top 40|Top Ten hit was "Breathless" (1986) from their final album Theater of the Mind . They recorded with Epic Records until the late 1980s. Group member Agee went solo (music)|solo in 1987.
" Juicy Fruit (song)|Juicy Fruit " would later be sampling (music)|sampled for the Notorious B.I.G song " Juicy (The Notorious B.I.G. song)|Juicy ", featured on his 1994 album Ready to Die , as well as the 2004 "Be Your Girl" remix by Teedra Moses and Raphael Saadiq . In 2007 it was sampled for Keyshia Cole 's single " Let It Go (Keyshia Cole song)|Let It Go ", which also topped the US R& B chart.
Other success
The group record producer|produced several song s for musician|artists such as Stephanie Mills , Roberta Flack , Lou Rawls , Phyllis Hyman , and Donny Hathaway in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Grammy Awards|Grammy winning single " Never Knew Love Like This Before " from Mills. James Mtume also produced Roy Ayers , and the Bar-Kays , and composer|composed the music and theme tune for the 1990s television police drama , New York Undercover .
Reggie Lucas (along with Jellybean Benitez ) produced the majority of Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna 's first album, Madonna (Madonna album)|Madonna , including the songs " Borderline (song)|Borderline " and " Lucky Star (song)|Lucky Star ".
James Mtume is the son of saxophone|saxophonist Jimmy Heath . James Mtume was a percussionist with Miles Davis from 1971 to 1975.
http://www.whosampled.com/artist/Mtume/ Mtume at WhoSampled
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