Frankie Beverly and Maze’s ability to fuse soul and jazz with an irresistible groove and intelligent lyrical content has gained for them an extremely loyal following among Soul music fans and great respect among their performing peers.

The group's Capitol debut was a Soul smash, yielding the hit "While I'm Alone" and hitting the Soul top 10.  As with the group's future albums, the subtle jazz stylings and smooth grooves were extremely appealing to Soul music fans.

Maze released a series of well crafted gold and platinum albums.  They were well received albums that uniformly hit the top 10 Soul and the Top 100 pop charts. The group  released a number of memorable singles, including "Joy and Pain," "Southern Girl," "Love Is The Key," "Back In Stride" (a #1 Soul hit) and "Can't Get Over You" (another #1).