Patrice Rushen / Remind Me - The Classic Elektra Recordings 1976-1984 (Remastered)

Artist: Patrice Rushen
Title: Remind Me - The Classic Elektra Recordings 1976-1984 (Remastered)
Label: Strut Records
Cat.#: STRUT205LPB
Format: 3x12" Vinyl LP
Country: UK
Released: 2024
Style: Soul, Funk, Disco

Track Listing:Strut present the first definitive retrospective of an icon of 1970s and ‘80s soul, jazz and disco, Patrice Rushen, covering her peerless 6-year career with Elektra / Asylum from 1978 to 1984.

Joining Elektra after three albums with jazz label Prestige, Patrice had shown prodigious talent at an early age and had first broken through after winning a competition to perform at the Monterrey Jazz Festival of 1972. By the time of the recordings on this collection, she had become a prolific and in-demand session musician and arranger on the West coast, appearing on over 80 recordings for other artists. She joined the Elektra / Asylum roster in 1978 as they launched a pop / jazz division alongside visionaries like Donald Byrd and Grover Washington, Jr. “The idea was to create music that was good for commercial radio / R&B,” Patrice explains. “We were all making sophisticated dance music, essentially.”