The Meeting is the tenth album of R&B singer Patrice Rushen

Patrice Rushen

Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...

, released in 1990. This album contains a collaboration of Rushen and many other artists. Featuring saxophonist Ernie Watts

Ernie Watts

Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...

, bassist Alphonso Johnson

Alphonso Johnson

Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson started off as an upright bass player, but switched to the electric bass in his late teens. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, Johnson showed...

 and drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, the album alternates between soulful jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, inventive R&B, a bit of funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

s. The set of songs are a pleasant surprise and is recommended to listeners who enjoy R&B-oriented jazz. Patrice's next album would be Anything but Ordinary

Anything But Ordinary

Anything but Ordinary is the eleventh album by R&B singer Patrice Rushen, released on November, 01, 1994. After her contract with Elektra Records expired in 1986-87, Rushen moved to Arista Records and afterwards in 1993, Patrice signed with Disney's Hollywood Records. Anything but Ordinary was...

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Track listing

1. "Groove Now and Then"
2. "Walk Your Talk"
3. "Steppin' Out"
4. "And I Think About It All the Time"
5. "Meeting"
6. "African Flower"
7. "Joyful Noise"
8. "Cherry Blossom"
9. "Lowness"
10. "Element of Mystery"
11. "Virgin"
12. "Tango"

External links

• [ All Music: The Meeting Review]