This masterful arrangement, coming from a young African American woman who wrote, performed, scored, produced, played, and ran her outfit, was the genesis of Rushen’s bankable pop music touch.
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Moving with precision, incorporating energized Earth Wind & Fire-type horn and string charts in the introduction of the song, it pushes up to full Stravinsky intensity, and then delivers a mid-song breezy-yet-lyrical Fender Rhodes solo to cool things out. “Haven’t You Heard,” her vigorous 1979 disco hit from Pizzazz, first broadcasted Rushen’s ability to be synchronous, yet singular all at once. She had been laying the stage for this success for years. To this day, she still receives some 30 requests a week to use her music for samples, especially by hip-hop artist-and that’s not counting requests for Will Smith’s monster 1997 hit “Men In Black,” which heavily sampled “Forget Me Nots.” In acknowledgment of her accomplishment, the forward-thinking album scored Rushen her first two nominations at the 1983 Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Forget Me Nots” and Best R&B Instrumental Performance for “Number One.” That success proved that she did know exactly what was going on in ’80s contemporary radio, while at the same time understanding what the future would require. You know, tracks you could electric slide to at your cousin’s next wedding-sounds that the label’s A&R couldn’t begin to comprehend. Straight From The Heart features funk, Afro-Cuban, boogie, augmented chord progression ballads, quiet storm selections, smooth jazz, and fusion joints to which to move. Straight from the Heart (Remastered) by Patrice Rushen It spoke to Rushen’s heart, not the label’s projected construct.
It includes Rushen’s indelible, multi-generation Black radio staple “Forget Me Nots,” the heavily-sampled “Remind Me,” and family-gathering-friendly instrumental “Number One.” It was a little bit of this, a touch of that. It is to the benefit of musicians to come that she didn’t bow to pressure to change-all these years later, the LP is being remastered by Strut Records for its 40th anniversary.īroadening pop sensibilities, the album showcases the way Black music was evolving in the early ’80s. But when she delivered her seventh studio album Straight From The Heart in 1982, A&R didn’t like it. In 1977, Elektra Records signed LA-based polymath and jazz prodigy Patrice Rushen in the hopes of overtaking Donald Byrd and Grover Washington Jr.
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