Maxwell

Modern Soul Master MAXWELL to do LIVE Outdoor Performance for CBS Early Show
Eagerly Awaited New Album,
BLACKsummers'night, Available Tue...

Modern Soul Master MAXWELL to do LIVE Outdoor Performance for CBS Early Show
Eagerly Awaited New Album,
BLACKsummers'night, Available Tuesday, July 7

Who: Modern Soul Master MAXWELL

What: FREE Live Outdoor Performance for CBS Early Show

Where: CBS Early Show Studio Plaza - Corner of 59th Street and 5th Avenue

When: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 @ 12:00 PM

Come to the CBS Early Show Studio Plaza to see a FREE live outdoor performance with Modern Soul Master Maxwell for the release of his latest album BLACKsummers'night. Fans should arrive by 10:30 AM on July 8, 2009 at the CBS Early Show Studio Plaza (located in front of the midtown Apple Store) to get the opportunity to experience the sounds of Maxwell's eagerly awaited fourth studio album, BLACKsummers'night.

Photo-op opportunities available. Photographers should arrive at 11:30 AM and enter through 58th Street and 5th Avenue.

BLACKsummers'night, the heavily-anticipated new studio album from Maxwell, will be released on CD, and in a Limited Edition Deluxe CD/DVD set, on Tuesday, July 7. This is the sensuous opening installment of the artist's monumental BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT trilogy. (The trilogy's subsequent chapters, blackSUMMERS'night and blacksummers'NIGHT, are slated for release in 2010 and 2011 respectively.)

Maxwell's first single, "Pretty Wings" holds the #1 slot on America's Urban Adult radio stations. The single reached #1 in record-breaking time less than eight weeks after its release. With Walmart as the only physical retailer, "Pretty Wings" single also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Singles chart.