Patrice Rushen - Remind Me (The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984) Artist_The Connection Machine

Patrice Rushen - Remind Me (The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984) Artist_The Connection MachineStrut 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

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this reissue offers a definitive window into the last creative surge of one of music’s most visionary figures across two Vinyl LP’s

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albeit singularly satisfying fragments -- EP-length glimpses into the Detroit producer’s creative psyche