Shout It Out
Patrice Rushen
Jazz-FunkBefore she went pop with "Forget Me Nots," Rushen was writing dense, chord-heavy jazz-funk like this, and it's a different kind of good. She's playing keys like a jazz musician who happens to love a groove, not the other way around. The title track moves, but it's the slower cuts where her piano work really shows off. An album for people who think fusion got a bad reputation it didn't earn.
