Before The Dawn (豆瓣)

表演者: Patrice Rushen
流派: 爵士
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: 黑胶
发行时间: 1974
出版者: Prestige
唱片数: 1

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　　Recorded August 1975
　　Studio Fantasy (Berkeley, California)
　　Patrice Rushen – acoustic piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizers, tambourine, cabasa
　　Lee Ritenour – guitars
　　Charles Meeks – bass (1, 2, 4, 5)
　　Tony Dumas – bass (3)
　　Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums (1, 2)
　　Harvey Mason – drums (3, 4, 5)
　　Nate Alfred – percussion (1, 2, ... (展开全部) 　　Recorded August 1975
　　Studio Fantasy (Berkeley, California)
　　Patrice Rushen – acoustic piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizers, tambourine, cabasa
　　Lee Ritenour – guitars
　　Charles Meeks – bass (1, 2, 4, 5)
　　Tony Dumas – bass (3)
　　Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums (1, 2)
　　Harvey Mason – drums (3, 4, 5)
　　Nate Alfred – percussion (1, 2, 5)
　　Kenneth Nash – percussion (3, 4)
　　Hadley Caliman – tenor saxophone (1, 2)
　　George Bohanon – trombone (1, 2, 4)
　　Oscar Brashear – trumpet, flugelhorn (1, 2, 4)
　　Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute (3, 4)
　　Josie James – vocals (3)
　　Handclaps on "What's the Story" – Nate Alfred, Reggie Andrews, Thelette Bennett, Josie James, Charles Meeks, Charles Mims, Patrice Rushen, Evelyn Wesley, Jimmie Lee Wesley, Brenda White and Martha Young
　　Before the Dawn is the second album by jazz/R&B musician Patrice Rushen; while 1974's Prelusion was essentially a straight-ahead record with fusion references, 1975's Before the Dawn was essentially a fusion album. With this album, Rushen brings a fusion of R&B, pop, and rock elements to her jazz foundation. The album included the song "What's the Story," which was the only song that did not have a jazz artist's sound; it had a more funk tune which featured singer Josie James. This would later be compared with songs from her follow-up albums as it showed great resemblance to her work as an R&B singer with Elektra Records. However, everything else on the album, is instrumental jazz — although instrumental jazz is mindful of R&B, pop, and rock. The album was a clear step for Rushen as it showed her entrance to R&B music and exit from jazz music. Her next album was Shout It Out, her last with Prestige Records.
　　Patrice Rushen was never a jazz snob or a jazz purist. The pianist/keyboardist grew up listening to R&B and rock, and even her debut album, Prelusion -- which was the most straight-ahead thing she ever recorded -- used electric instruments. So for Rushen, the fusion orientation of her second album, Before the Dawn, was a logical progression. While 1974's Prelusion was essentially a straight-ahead record with fusion references, 1975's Before the Dawn is essentially a fusion album. This generally excellent LP is more commercial than its predecessor, and Rushen doesn't hesitate to bring R&B, pop, and rock elements to her jazz foundation. Purists weren't crazy about Before the Dawn, but the fact is that most of the material gives Rushen and her sidemen (who include flutist Hubert Laws and guitarist Lee Ritenour) enough room to stretch out and improvise. The only track that doesn't have a jazz artist's sense of spontaneity is the funk tune "What's the Story," which features singer Josie James and is exactly the sort of thing that Rushen herself would be singing when she signed with Elektra in 1978. Everything else on Before the Dawn, however, is instrumental jazz -- although instrumental jazz that's mindful of R&B, pop, and rock.