Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers’night as well as 1996s multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwells silky vocal stylings ponder love and emotional connection in a boldly deep and complex way. His co-headliner, Jill Scott, is more than capable of drawing her own crowd; known for a wise and honest perspective, not to mention vividly descriptive flourishes, her fourth release The Light of the Sun (due out later this year) promises to be a further cementing of Scotts place as the neo-soul queen. Between the two Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneers and their balance of baby-making grooves and intellectual poetics, its an R&B lovers dream. With Guy Torry. NICK FELDMAN
Wed., June 2, 7 p.m., 2010
