''Shout It Out'' is the third album by singer

Patrice Rushen Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director. Her 1982 single "Forget Me Nots" received a Grammy Awar ...

. This album was the last Patrice released with

Prestige Records Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz music ...

before signing with

Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1 ...

. With this album, Rushen performs songs ranging from jazz, funk and fusion to R&B.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Patrice Rushen, except where indicated. # "The Hump" (Darryl Cox, Patrice Rushen) – 6:04 # "Shout It Out" – 6:14 # "Stepping Stones" (Charles Mims) – 5:00 # "Let Your Heart Be Free" (Angela Rushen, Patrice Rushen) – 3:58 # "Roll With the Punches" – 6:17 # "Let There Be Funk" (Darryl Cox, Patrice Rushen) – 4:16 # "Yolon" (Reggie Andrews) – 4:32 # "Sojourn" – 4:43

Personnel

* Patrice Rushen – lead vocals (1-4, 6, 8), electric piano (1-5, 7, 8),

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

(1, 2, 5, 6), handclaps (1, 4, 6), arrangements (1, 2, 4-8), tambourine (2, 5),

Minimoog The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981. Designed as a more affordable, portable version of the modular Moog synthesizer, it was the first synthesizer sold in retail stores. It was first popul ...

(3, 6, 7), electric bass (4), backing vocals (4), high bass (5),

Yamaha Yamaha may refer to: * Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below). ** Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization estab ...

electric grand piano The electric grand piano is a stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard, in which the vibration of strings struck by hammers is converted by pickups into electrical signals, analogous to the electric guitar's electrification of the tra ...

(5, 8),

ARP synthesizer ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before de ...

(7) Bosendorfer

grand piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(8), synth horns (8), synth strings (8), choir vocals (8) * Mitchell Bagman – additional Minimoog (6) * Larry Nash – synth horns (7, 8), synth strings (7, 8) * Reggie Andrews – synth horns (7, 8), synth strings (7, 8), arrangements (7) *

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– guitars (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8) * Charles Meeks – electric bass (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8), handclaps (1, 4, 6), backing vocals (1, 2, 3), thumbed bass (5), choir vocals (8) *

James Gadson James Gadson ( James Edward Gadson; born June 17, 1939) is an American drummer and session musician. Beginning his career in the late 1960s, Gadson has since become one of the most-recorded drummers in the history of R&B. He is also a singer and ...

– drums (1-7), "right" drums (8) *

Graham Lear Graham Lear (born July 24, 1949) is an English-born Canadian rock drummer, best known for his time with Gino Vannelli, Santana and REO Speedwagon. He was born in Plymouth, United Kingdom. Background In 1952 his family moved to London, Ontario, ...

– "left" drums (8) *

Bill Summers Bill Summers may refer to: * Bill Summers (car builder) (1935–2011), American car builder and longtime speed record holder * Bill Summers (musician) (born 1948), American jazz percussionist *Bill Summers (umpire) William Reed Summers (November ...

– percussion (2-8) * Tom Scott – tenor saxophone (2),

lyricon The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed. Invented by Bill Bernardi (and co-engineered by Roger Noble and with the late Lyricon performer Chuck GreenbergIngham (1998) p.184), filed for patent on ...

(2) * Nate Alford – trumpet (1, 3, 5), handclaps (1, 4, 6) * Charles Mims – trumpet (1, 3, 5), handclaps (1, 4), arrangements (3) * Danny Vicari – trumpet (1, 3, 5), handclaps (1, 4) *

Tommy Vicari Thomas Vicari (born August 24, 1948) is an American recording engineer, mixing engineer, record producer and scoring mixer known for his work with Quincy Jones, Gino Vannelli, Nicholas Britell, Thomas Newman, Prince, George Duke and Barbra Streisan ...

– whistle (6) * Darrell Cox – handclaps (1, 4) * Ferd Porche – handclaps (1, 4) * Ronnie Williams – handclaps (1, 4) * Roslyn Barbee – handclaps (1, 4) * Josie James – backing vocals (1, 6), handclaps (1, 4, 6), choir vocals (8) * Maxine Waters – backing vocals (2, 3), handclaps (6) * Roy Galloway – backing vocals (2, 3, 6), handclaps (6), choir vocals (8), vocal solo (8)

Production

* Producers – Patrice Rushen, Reggie Andrews and Tommy Vicari. * Executive Producer – Orrin Keepnews * Production Assistance – Charles Mims * Engineer –

* Assistant Engineers – Danny Vicari and Helen Silvani * Mastered by

Bernie Grundman Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mi ...

A&M Studios The Jim Henson Company Lot, formerly A&M Studios, is a studio property located just south of the southeast corner of North La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Originally established by film star Charlie Chaplin, the property serve ...

(Hollywood, CA). * Art Direction and Design – Phil Carroll * Photography – Phil Bray

References

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