Various artists, “Curtis Mayfield’s Chicago Soul,” Legacy. **

If you have “People Get Ready,” Rhino’s excellent, three-disc Mayfield retrospective, you’ve got the Mayfield catalog pretty much covered. These 18 tracks were written or produced by Mayfield for Okeh Records in the mid-’60s. There are a couple of hits, including Major Lance’s 1963 “The Monkey Time.” Mostly, the music here--featuring such artists as Walter Jackson, Gene Chandler and Billy Butler & the Enchanters--lacks the passionate and distinctive edge of Mayfield’s own recordings.

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