After Hours
Rahsaan Patterson
r&bPatterson's fourth record is a smoky, late-night r&b album with a queer sensibility that never performed its difference — 'Spend the Night' and 'Treat Me Like Rain' are seductive in the way good soul music is, through texture and suggestion rather than loud statement. Blue Note released it, which tells you something about where it sat between r&b and jazz-adjacent sophistication. Barely registered commercially despite being one of the stronger vocal performances of that period.
