Chaka Khan (1982 album)

Infobox Album
Name = Chaka Khan
Type = studio album
Artist = Chaka Khan


Released = November 17 1982
Recorded =
Genre = R&B
Length = 39:02
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Arif Mardin
Reviews = Rating|4.5|5 All Music Guide [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9fqxq95ldfe]
Last album = "Echoes of an Era"
(1982)
This album = "Chaka Khan"
(1982)
Next album = "The Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan"
(1982)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Rufus & Chaka Khan
Type = Album
Last album = "Camouflage"
(1981)
This album =
Next album = "The Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan"
(1982)

"Chaka Khan" is the eponymous fourth solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1982.

Overview

Two singles were released from "Chaka Khan": the Michael Jackson cover "Got to Be There" (US Pop #67, US R&B #5) and "Tearin' It Up" (US R&B #48), the latter also as a 12" single including an extended remix (- 7:21) as well as an instrumental version (- 8:07), both mixed by Larry Levan and included on Warner Music Japan's 1999 compilation "Dance Classics of Chaka Khan". The album track "Slow Dancin'" was a funky ballad duet with the late Rick James. On Billboard's charts, the album reached #5 on Black Albums and #52 on Pop Albums. The "Bebop Medley" won producer Arif Mardin and Khan a Grammy Award in 1984 in the "Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices" category.

Following the release of the "Chaka Khan" album and the greatest hits package "The Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan" later that same year Khan reunited with the band Rufus for one final album together, the double live/studio set "Stompin' at the Savoy - Live" (1983). Her next solo album "I Feel for You" followed in 1984.

Despite its many accolades and artistic achievements the "Chaka Khan" album remains unreleased on CD in both the United States and Europe, and is as yet only available as an import from Japan. [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/241263 Discogs.com entry] ] [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/1081764 Discogs.com entry] ] [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/1342799 Discogs.com entry] ] [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/762832 Discogs.com entry] ]

Track listing

#"Tearin' It Up" (Bunny Sigler, Jane Lumibao) - 6:39
#"Slow Dancin'" (featuring Rick James) (Loz Netto) - 5:22
#"Best In The West" (Dominick Bugatti, Frank Musker) - 4:00
#"Got To Be There" ((Elliot Willenski) - 4:00
#Be Bop Medley: "Hot House" / "East Of Suez (Come On Sailor)" / "Epistrophy (I Wanna Play)" / "Yardbird Suite" / "Con Alma" / "Giant Steps" (Ted Dameron) / (Lou Stein) / (Thelonious Sphere Monk) / (Charlie Parker) / (Dizzy Gillespie) / (John Coltrane) - 5:22
#"Twisted" (Colin Campsie, George McFarlane) - 4:12
#"So Not To Worry" (Mark McMillan) - 4:55
#"Pass It On (A Sure Thing) (Pasa Lo Esta Seguro)" (Lalomi Washburn, Tony Maiden) - 4:32

Personnel

* Chaka Khan - vocals, backing vocals
* Steve Ferrone - drums & hand claps trk: 1, drums trks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
* Lenny Underwood - electric piano trk: 1
* Paul Jackson Jr. - electric guitar trks: 1, 2, 3, 4
* Sammy Figueroa - percussion trks: 1, 3
* Robbie Buchanan - Moog bass synthesizer, Prophet and Jupiter synthesizers trk: 1, keyboards & synthesizers trk: 2, 4, 6, keyboards & bass synthesizers trk: 3, electric piano & synthesizers trk: 5, piano & synthesizers trks: 7, 8
* Michael Brecker - alto saxophone solo trk: 1
* Hamish Stuart - vocal ad libs trk: 1, background vocals trk: 7
* Alvin Fields - low voice trk: 1
* Rick James - vocals trk: 2
* Will Lee - bass trks: 2, 6, 8, background vocals trk: 7
* Bob Christianson - additional OBX synthesizer trk: 3, vocoder & additional synthesizers trk: 5 ("Con Alma")
* Kenny Kossek: fiddle trk: 3
* Robert Bonfiglio - harmonica trk: 3
* Eric Weissberg - steel guitar & jew's harp trk: 3; sitar trk: 5
* Hiram Bullock - guitar trks: 5, 7, 8, rhythm guitar trk: 6
* Seyhun Celik - darbuka trk: 5 ("East Of Suez")
* Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone trk: 5
* Ray Gomez - lead guitar trk: 6
* Anthony Jackson - bass trk: 7
* Dave Tofani - alto saxophone trk: 8
* Mark Stevens - tube voice trk: 8

Production

* Arif Mardin - record producer, musical arranger (rhythm) trks: 1, 2, 3, musical arranger trk: 4, musical arranger & vocal arrangement trk: 5
* Randy Brecker - musical arranger (horns) trk: 1
* Robbie Buchanan - musical arranger (bass part) trk: 1, musical arranger (rhythm) trks: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8. musical arranger trks: 4, 5
* Danne Lemelle - musical arranger (horns) trk: 2
* Chaka Khan - vocal arrangement & special lyrics trk: 5

References