Rufus & Chaka - Masterjam

Styles: Vocal, Funk, Soul 
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:29
Size: 92,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Do You Love What You Feel
(4:52)  2. Any Love
(3:47)  3. Heaven Bound
(4:07)  4. Walk The Rockway
(3:54)  5. Live In Me
(5:58)  6. Body Heat
(4:34)  7. I'm Dancing For Your Love
(4:06)  8. What Am I Missing?
(3:37)  9. Masterjam

As Khan released her first solo album, I'm Every Woman, the band released 1978's Numbers, sans Khan, and it went absolutely nowhere. Masterjam finds them back together, renamed Rufus and Chaka, with Quincy Jones producing the effort. Khan had worked with Jones on his 1978 album, Sounds...And Stuff Like That. The most striking thing about Masterjam is that is doesn't sound like a trademark Rufus effort. Jones' production style is so strong that the band's individual sound is all but lost. It's nothing to cry about, since Jones was at his R&B/pop peak and Rufus couldn't do it any better on their own. The album's first track is "Do What You Love What You Feel," with its subtle horn riffs arranged by Jerry Hey and vocals from guitarist Tony Maiden and Khan. On a track somewhat close to a ballad, the brilliantly arranged "Heaven Bound," Jones gets a good raw vocal from Khan. A frequent Jones collaborator, Rod Temperton, offers the title track and the even better "Live in Me." The album's only low point was a cover of Jones' own "Body Heat." On this version the pace is quickened, inexplicably turned into disco which revealed the lyrics to be paper-thin. Although Masterjam was just more of a Quincy Jones album than a Rufus effort, this ended up being one of the groups' last successful full-studio endeavors. ~ Jason Elias http://www.allmusic.com/album/masterjam-mw0000096521

Personnel: Chaka Khan (vocals, background vocals); Tony Maiden (vocals, guitar); David "Hawk" Wolinski, Kevin Murphy (vocals, keyboards); Bobby Watson (vocals); Sid Sharp (strings); Kim Hutchcroft (flute, saxophone, horns); Larry Williams (flute, saxophone, wind); Gary Grant, Larry Hall (trumpet, flugelhorn, horns); Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Lew McCreary, William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Seawind (horns); John "J.R." Robinson (drums, hand claps, percussion); George A. Johnson, Jr. , Louis Johnson, Richard Heath (hand claps, percussion).

Masterjam

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Rufus With Chaka Khan - The Very Best Of

Styles: Vocal, Funk, Soul
Year: 1982
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:08
Size: 99,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:30)  1. Do You Love What You Feel
(4:40)  2. Tell Me Something Good
(4:00)  3. Dance With Me
(4:09)  4. Hollywood
(5:42)  5. Stay
(4:31)  6. Once You Get Started
(4:45)  7. You Got The Love
(4:21)  8. At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)
(3:06)  9. Please Pardon Me (You Remind Me Of A Friend)
(3:20) 10. Sweet Thing

The Very Best of Rufus with Chaka Khan is a greatest hits album by funk band Rufus and singer Chaka Khan, originally released on the MCA Records label in 1982. The collection comprises ten of the group's biggest hits on the ABC/MCA labels, including "You Got the Love", "Sweet Thing", "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)", "Do You Love What You Feel", "Tell Me Something Good", "Stay", "Hollywood" and "Dance Wit Me". The Very Best of... was released in late 1982, prior to the recording of the band's two final albums, both for the Warner Bros. Records label, and does consequently not include their hits "Ain't Nobody" and "One Million Kisses", both from the 1983 double-set Stompin' at the Savoy - Live. However, it doesn't contain any material from their 1973 self-titled debut album or their recent album at the time, 1981's Camouflage. It also doesn't contain any material from the Khan-less albums Numbers (1979) and Party 'Til You're Broke (1981). The ten track Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan was re-released on CD by MCA/Geffen Records in the mid 1990s in both the US and Europe and is to date the only career retrospective available with the band. Rufus and Chaka Khan's ABC/MCA back catalogue (1973–1982) is as of 2003 distributed by the Universal Music Group.In a contemporary review, Billboard said The Very Best Of revisits the group's "spine-tingling brand of soul-gone-funk", which remains potent because of Khan's singing. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said the compilation contained Khan's "great Rufus songs". Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars in his review for AllMusic, and Dave Thompson gave the record an eight out of 10 in his 2001 book Funk. "All the hits and no misses", he wrote. "A great comp". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_Rufus_with_Chaka_Khan

Personnel: Tony Maiden (vocals, guitar, percussion, background vocals); Ron Stockert (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Chaka Khan (vocals, background vocals); Bobby Ray Watson, Bobby Watson (vocals); Al Ciner (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Kevin Murphy (piano, Clarinet, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, background vocals); David "Hawk" Wolinski (keyboards, background vocals); Moon Calhoun, André Fischer (drums, percussion, background vocals); John "J.R." Robinson , John "4 Daddman" Robinson (drums, percussion); Dennis Belfield (background vocals).

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