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Patrice Rushen

Born: September 30, 1954

Three time Grammy nominee, and NEA Jazz Master, Patrice Rushen has fashioned her career after the legacy of her longtime friend and mentor, the late Quincy Jones. Composer...Producer... International Recording Artist...Rushen has definitely earned the respect she has been awarded by her peers in the music industry. 

Admired by many for her groundbreaking achievements, Rushen has amassed an impressive list of “firsts”. She was the first woman t serve as Musical Director for the 46th, 47th & 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the first woman in 43 years to serve as Head Composer/Musical Director for television’s highest honor, the Emmy Awards and the first woman Musical Director of the NAACP Image Awards, an honor she held for 12 consecutive years. Rushen has also been the only woman Musical Director/Composer for the People’s Choice Awards and HBO’s Comic Relief. She was the only woman Musical Director/Conductor/Arranger for a late-night television talk show. The show was The Midnight Hour, which aired on CBS. Rushen was named the Musical Director/Composer for Newsweek’s first American Achievement Awards, broadcast from the Kennedy Center. In March 2008, she received the assignment as Music Director and host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “LA Phil Presents: A Tribute to Ella”. The event that featured five outstanding vocalists paying tribute to the vocal talents of Ella Fitzgerald Patrice served as the Musical Director for Janet Jackson’s World Tour, “janet.” As the Musical Director for the award shows, she composed and performed special musical tributes to Michael Landon, Ted Turner, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, The Temptations, James Garner and Leonard Bernstein to name a few. Rushen was named Composer in Residence during the August 2004 sessions at the Henry Mancini Institute. 

Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning)

By Mike Clark

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: East Broadway Rundown; Austin City Shuffle; Eddy and Hyde; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Lungs; Toys; Kuon Ganjo; Monk's Dream; Beauty and the Beast

Kuon Ganjo

By Mike Clark

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: East Broadway Rundown; Austin City Shuffle; Eddy and Hyde; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Lungs; Toys; Kuon Ganjo; Monk’s Dream; Beauty and the Beast.

Mike Clark: Kuon Ganjo

by Jack Bowers
August 8, 2026

Not much is really new on veteran drummer Mike Clark's 2026 album, Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), which encompasses a series of nine hard-bop themes performed by Clark's able quintet. Having said that, the most reasonable question is, do they do it well? And the answer to that is an unequivocal yes. Clark, who ...

Miles Davis Centennial Celebration At SFJAZZ 2026

by Walter Atkins
April 5, 2026

The 2026 Miles Davis Centennial Celebration at SFJAZZ marked the first hundred years of the innovator, musician and painter Miles Dewey Davis III. Davis' nephew, producer and Miles Electric Band leader Vince Wilburn Jr has maintained and directed the influential legacy of Davis for decades. This year, Wilburn introduced several fresh elements to his annual visit ...

End of Month Keyboard Special - Music from Amina Figarova, Patrice Rushen, Soulive, and Others

by David W. Daniels
March 3, 2026

Keyboard special for the last Thursday in February 2026. Additional keyboard musicians include Big John Patton, Kenny Barron, Dena DeRose, Michael Wolff, and more.Playlist Amina Figarova “Explorations" from Road To The Sun (AmFi) 00:00 Nina Simone “Backlash Blues" from Live & Kickin' In Europe & The Carribean Vol. 1 (Jungle) 7:48 Big John Patton ...

Brian Culbertson: Day Trip

by Bridget A. Arnwine
February 17, 2026

Multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson is a musician with a vision, and on his Day Trip, he sets out to share that vision with his listeners. What is that vision? It is that of an artist who understands what music is capable of and his role as an artist to bring that all to fruition: the slow groove ...

Mike Clark and Phil Haynes: Keep Beating The Drum(s)

by Doug Collette
February 9, 2026

A great drummer is the driving force of any band's performances, whether on stage or in the studio. So, is it any surprise that jazz ensembles led by drummers invariably evince strong collective personalities, even if the members of those groups are as self-motivated and inner-directed as their leader(s)? Each of these bands, led by Mike ...

Itai Doshin

By Mike Clark

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Epistrophy; Cherokee; Mganga; I Shot the Sheriff; Inside Zone; Savant Clark; Yakani's Dance; Midori; Epistrophy II.

Mike Clark: Itai Doshin

by Jack Bowers
November 14, 2025

Itai Doshin is a Buddhist term that, translated from Japanese, refers to a state of harmony wherein individuals share a common goal and purpose, or “many in body, one in mind." That is the level California-based drum legend Mike Clark's quintet strives for on Clark's second album on Gregory Howe's Wide Hive label. ...