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• Strut present the rst denitive 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 rst broken through after winning a competition to perform at the Monterrey Jazz Festival of 1972. By the time of the recordings on this collection, she had become a prolic and in-demand session musician and arranger on the West coast, appearing on over 80 recordings for other artists.

  She joined the Elektra / Asylum roster in 1978 as they launched a pop / jazz division alongside visionaries like Donald Byrd and Grover Washington, Jr. The idea was to create music that was good for commercial radio / R&B, Patrice ex