Patrice (CD)

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• Release Date: February 25, 2003
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• UPC: 664140016026
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106485124
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #56071 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2829 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #376 in Pop R&B (See Top 100 Pop R&B Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Patrice Rushen (piano, electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, background vocals); Al McKay, Marlo Henderson (guitar); Valarie King (flute); Bill Green (clarinet); Jeff Clayton (oboe); David Riddles (bassoon); Kim Hutchcroft (alto saxophone); Larry Williams (tenor saxophone); Ray Brown , Oscar Brashear (trumpet); George Bohannon, Bill Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Maurice Spears (bass trombone); Clay Lawrey (horns); Charles Mims, Jr. (piano); James Gadson (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, Bill Summers (percussion); Jim Gilstrap, Oren Waters, Pauline Wilson, Roy Galloway, Syreeta Wright (background vocals).

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. ~ Alex Henderson

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