Re: Patrice Rushen
Tony Reid (t-bird@salata.com)
28 May 96 12:26:18 -0800
> Just listening to my copy of 'Fusion Phew' and remembered how similar the
> track 'The Hump' sounds to the 'Heavies'. It's by Patrice Rushen from
> '77 and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this artist and
> whether this is the typical sound to expect. Are there any albums
> released on CD?
ma> Is it all like "The Hump"? No. She did more stuff like that earlier in
ma> her career (late 70s) but her albums would in general fall into the
ma> "soul/funk" category in your average early 80's Our Price. Personally,
ma> I love her stuff - "Straight From The Heart" (1982) is one of my all
ma> time fave LPs. You've probably already heard her biggest hit, "Forget
ma> Me Nots" (from SFTH), not least sampled and otherwise borrowed from on
ma> George Michael's "Fastlove", and "Haven't You Heard" turns up in
ma> Zhane's "Groove Thing".
don't forget "remind me" which was sampled by tragedy (intelligent hoodlum)
for "grand groove" and at least borrowed if not actually sampled by mary j.
blige for "you remind me".
there's another 70's record called "light of dawn" or something like that
w/a cool funk-jazz track called "kicking back", most of the record is abstract
fusion, like jean-luc ponty or something. her playing reminded me of herbie
hancock around that time. she actually shows up on one of herbie's tunes from
the late 70's, they're both doing the vocoder (talk-box) thing.
she did a tour w/ndugu--jazz funk drummer, ex-weather report/george duke/dazz
band/crusaders/etc.--where it was just the two of them, and she can REALLY
play.
if you get a chance to check her live, do it! just don't be surprised if she
does a lot of r&b.
t-bird
... there are only 2 kinds of music, good & bad-duke ellington