+delilah navaja A Good Day to be Black & SexyR 2008 ‧ Comedy-drama/Indie film ‧ 1h 32m5/10IMDb80%Rotten TomatoesIn six vignettes from Los Angeles, the subject of sexuality and relationships within the black community shatters stereotypes about black sexuality.
yeah,when me and my then pregnant highschool sweetheart with our first born
would ride around in the summer of 1977 in southern california,wow! those
was the days!
+Ronald Charles Epstein Patrice (Baby Fingers) is a jazz artist ...they put the "disco" label on one song which I think isn't disco at all...the establishment is so misleading
Patrice Rushen...what can I say that wasn't already been said? One of the
genius musical minds to say the least. Been outcha' since she was a yung
un'!!!!!
Smooth did this a nice justice with the song ... "Strawberries". ;) ... Wow
I love the repeat of history in MUSIC and (fashion too). History recycles
and repeats and reinvents itself in everything ... Amazing!
@Groover8365 Yeah, Patrice is one of my all time favorite artists, I saw
her live for the first time a few years ago with bassist Stanley Clarke and
drummer Lenny White in DC. I had the opportunity to speak with her after
the gig about some of her 70's music like this album. Thanks
This is a classic album, I remember when my brother purchased this album
and KJLH when it was a jazz album format station like KUTE 102 used to play
this song. I miss those days. jazz is a dying art thank to the generic jazz
we are hearing now.
PATRICE RUSHEN's 1977 Track "SOJOURN" is a CLASSIC EXAMPLE of the COLD,
SERIOUS & CREATIVE EDGE of REAL JAZZ-FUSION . That SUBSTANCE is
Clearly-Lacking in (Most of) the Commercial , Predictable , Smooth "Jazz"
of Today.
I was 14 when this album came out, my older brother had it and I loved
Patrice's music from that point as well as year early, progressive Fusion
sound. She was an extreme talent of keyboards-Baby Fingers.
@not2shy2say Someone else remembers KUTE 102! Amazing!!! I think it was
more like the WAVE but sounded strictly jazzy all of the time. I like the
WAVE but they can play some crazy stuff sometimes
@ShangoDC I was 9 years old when I heard this song and loved it ever since.
My older brother bought it too and I am absolutely appreciative and
astonished that I can now enjoy it again.
I've been dying to hear this song for years and finally tracked it down!!
Thank you! Thank you! My brother used to play this, my 1st intro to
fusion...
@solsojourner If you were into the Jazz "Fusion" movement of the 70's it
was big. Got a lot of airplay of black college radio stations like Howard
University (WHUR) and Morgan State University's station etc. This and two
albums before was when she was still into her Jazz instrumental roots.
After this album she went commercial and R&B. She can play and compose with
the best of them to this day.
+ShangoDC Yeah, Man . . . .Was deeply into the 70's fusion scene. However,
Omaha Nebraska was a limited market that did not fully explore the spectrum
of what was out there.
If you did not have the (ha, ha) album, or know of someone who did, you
would be confined to what was coming out over the airwaves . . . . .
please You Tube put the song Stepping Stones back on YouTube. That's a
really good song. I'm really pissed the song was removed because of
copyrights. Get it back.
A SMOOTH JAZZY MASTERPIECE THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD HEAVY ROTATION IN NYC ON
WRVR IN 1977.PUTS ME IN THE MIND OF EARLY EWF/RAMSEY LEWIS
PROJECTS.BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
I was living in Canada in 79 when i first heard this, been listening ever
since... Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Don
Grusin Sadawo Wantanabe, Harvey Mason, Jerry Hey, Lenny White, Dave
Sanborn, Billy Cobham, Angel Bofill, Phillis Hyman Luthar Vandross,George
Igram, Gwen Guthrie...Jazz Fiens no what i am talking about
//www.patricerushen.com From the 1979 Pizzazz Rushen was born in Los Angeles, California on September 30, 1954, the eldest of two daughters born to ...
Love the percussion intro!!!!! And the dynamics of the horn section along
with the bass line and heavy piano chords... What the groove is all about!
Sounds like it could have been a EWF song cause their secret weapon is
their HORNS and bass and assorted percussion... Love this!
@pierrerichard7777 Grey October, banished. As upful a single track as I
could hope to find - confirming that soul music didn't die out when I
thought it did, just after Al Green and upon advent of disco
@Sin578 The bass/piano part in the background has more or less the same
progression as the left hand part in Pjanoo. It's not exactly the same
though, and the context in which its used is so different that it's kind of
hard to tell at first. ...which, incidentally is why Pjanoo isn't any less
of a song for it, since it takes this basic progression and builds around
it something completely different.
This has always been one of my favorites from Patrice. Thank you for
posting this funky jam. Patrice and Teena Marie were so funky and real.
It's a shame we don't have singers like this today with real voices and
talent!!!!
ffs sampling exists everywhere guys lol and anyways the chord progression
is similar to Pjanoo doesn't mean eric prydz stole it, it just means he was
inspired by it.