Artist: Patrice Rushen
Album: Feels So Real: The Complete Elektra Recordings 1978-1984
Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B
Label: Strut
Released: 2022
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1 - Patrice (1978)
- Music of the Earth (3:59)
- When I Found You (5:24)
- Changes (In Your Life) (4:12)
- Wishful Thinking (5:12)
- Let's Sing a Song of Love (3:45)
- Hang It Up (5:13)
- Cha-Cha (3:25)
- It's Just a Natural Thing (3:21)
- Didn't You Know? (5:17)
- Play! (4:38)
- Music of the Earth (Danny Krivit Edit) (8:10)
- Hang It Up (12" Version) (7:30)
- Play! (Extended Take) (8:21)
- Didn't You Know? (Extended Take) (6:01)
- CD 2 - Pizzazz (1979)
01. Let the Music Take Me (6:53)
02. Keepin' Faith in Love (4:11)
03. Settle for My Love (5:19)
04. Message in the Music (3:05)
05. Haven't You Heard (6:47)
06. Givin' It Up Is Givin' Up (5:03)
07. Call on Me (6:49)
08. Reprise (Message in the Music) (1:02)
09. Haven't You Heard (12" Version) (7:20)
10. Let the Music Take Me (12" Version) (6:43)
11. Givin' It Up Is Givin' Up (Instrumental Version) (5:00)
- CD 3 - Posh (1980)
- Never Gonna Give You Up (Won't Let You Be) (6:51)
- Don't Blame Me (6:32)
- Look Up! (3:43)
- I Need Your Love (4:29)
- Time Will Tell (5:11)
- The Dream (4:55)
- The Funk Won't Let You Down (7:36)
- This Is All I Really Know (4:42)
- Look Up! (12" Version) (4:52)
- CD 4 - Straight from the Heart (1982)
- Forget Me Nots (4:45)
- I Was Tired of Being Alone (3:53)
- All We Need (5:55)
- Number One (Instrumental) (4:59)
- Where There Is Love (3:11)
- Breakout (4:06)
- If Only (3:36)
- Remind Me (5:20)
- (She Will) Take You Down to Love (4:24)
- Forget Me Nots (12" Version) (7:14)
- Breakout (12" Version) (5:49)
- I Was Tired of Being Alone (12" Version) (6:04)
- Number One (12" Version) (6:46)
- CD 5 - Now (1984)
- Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (6:51)
- Gone with the Night (4:43)
- Gotta Find It (4:30)
- Superstar (4:59)
- Heartache Heartbreak (4:13)
- Get Off (You Fascinate Me) (6:22)
- My Love's Not Going Anywhere (4:19)
- Perfect Love (5:00)
- High in Me (4:17)
- To Each His Own (4:15)
- Get Off (You Fascinate Me) (12" Version) (6:31)
- Get Off (You Fascinate Me) (Instrumental) (3:39)
- Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (Edit) (4:54)
- Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (Dub Version) (7:05)
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After she mixed post-bop, soul-jazz, and jazz-funk with nimble ingenuity over three albums for the Prestige label, Patrice Rushen moved to Elektra, and with labelmates Donald Byrd, Lenny White, and Dee Dee Bridgewater extended the imprint's commercial reach while continuing to obscure the distinctions between jazz and R&B. Elektra VP Don Mizell promoted the term jazz fusion. Musician James Mtume referred to his similar approach as sophisti-funk. Whatever the category, Rushen was in the top tier. She continually moved forward as a keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and producer with the five LPs -- Patrice and Pizzazz, which hit the Top Ten of the jazz chart, followed by Posh and the Top Ten R&B albums Straight from the Heart and Now -- expanded and gathered for this boxed set. Strut Records previously summed up the era with Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984, and while the single-disc set balanced deep quiet storm gems like "Settle for My Love" and "Where There Is Love" with danceable hits such as "Haven't You Heard" and "Forget Me Nots," it left much to explore. "Hang It Up," "Let the Music Take Me," "Don't Blame Me," "I Was Tired of Being Alone," and "Get Off (You Fascinate Me)," just to pick a track off each album, merely hint at the delights here that weren't anthologized. Feels So Real, packaged fold-out style with an informative and image-rich booklet, also adds well over a dozen bonus tracks -- versions and dubs from the original 12" singles, previously unreleased extended takes, and pioneering New York club DJ Danny Krivit's re-edit of "Music of the Earth" (which Strut issued in 2010).
Review by Andy Kellman