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Rags To Rufus is the gold-selling second studio album by funk band Rufus, released on the ABC Records label in 1974. It reached #4 on both the Pop and Black Albums charts. RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN MASTERJAM ORIGINAL 1979 MCA RECORDS STUDIO ALBUM MCA CD ALBUM. Click & Collect. £3.50 postage. Rufus And Chaka Khan Aint Nobody Remix3 Inch Single CD. £7.50 + £11.11 postage. Make offer - Rufus And Chaka Khan Aint Nobody Remix3 Inch Single CD. Side Refine Panel.
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.
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
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1 | Rufus & Chaka Khan / Rufus | 04:29 | ||
2 | 04:52 | |||
3 | L. Smokey Bates / Billy Durham / Dennis Linde / Bill Meyers | 03:47 | ||
4 | Rufus & Chaka Khan / Rufus | 04:07 | ||
5 | 03:54 | |||
6 | George Fischoff / Bruce Fisher / Quincy Jones / Stan Richardson / Leon Ware | 05:58 | ||
7 | Patti Austin / Peggy Lipton Jones / David 'Hawk' Wolinski | 04:34 | ||
8 | Rufus & Chaka Khan / Rufus | 04:06 | ||
9 | 03:37 |
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