Patrice Rushen - Patrice - 2x LP Vinyl

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SKU:
c0028479
UPC:
4062548027969

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Artist:
Patrice Rushen
Album:
Patrice
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
4062548027969

Description

Strut revisit the early years of Patrice Rushen’s time with Elektra Records with the definitive 2LP edition of the ‘Patrice’ album from 1978. Includes a 2nd disc of extended versions & edits!

After recording three jazz-oriented albums for Prestige, Patrice Rushen switched to Elektra and gave herself a major R&B/pop makeover with Patrice. Even the funkiest parts of Shout It Out, the last of Rushen's three Prestige/Fantasy albums, couldn't have prepared listeners for this LP, which finds her taking the commercial plunge and successfully making the transition from jazz instrumentalist to R&B/pop vocalist. As expected, jazz's hardcore audience cried foul: Like Roy Ayers, George Duke, George Benson, and other jazz instrumentalists who took up R&B singing, Rushen was called a sellout and vilified in the jazz media. Patrice was trashed by jazz critics. Instead of hating this album because it isn't jazz, however, they should have judged it by R&B/pop standards. When those standards are applied, it becomes obvious that Patrice is, in fact, a rewarding R&B/pop effort. Patrice demonstrated that she could be an expressive, charming singer, and her writing or co-writing is solid on cuts that range from the funky "Hang It Up" and the lovely ballad "Didn't You Know?" to the socio-political "Changes (In Your Life)." With Patrice, the Los Angeles native made it clear that she was as appealing as an R&B/pop singer as she had been as a jazz pianist/keyboardist.
A1Music Of The Earth
A2When I Found You
A3Changes (In Your Life)
A4Wishful Thinking
A5Let's Sing A Song Of Love
B1Hang It Up
B2Cha-Cha
B3It's Just A Natural Thing
B4Didn't You Know
B5Play!
C1Music Of The Earth (Danny Krivit Edit)
C2Hang It Up (12" Version)
D1Play! (12" Version)
D2Didn't You Know (Extended Version)