After nearly a decade away without releasing an album, Chaka Khan is poised to make a return to the music scene:

Khan teamed up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to make “Funk This,” which is being released by the Sony-distributed Burgundy Records imprint.

The album mixes originals and covers, the latter including Prince’s “Sign O’ the Times,” Mitchell’s “Ladies Man,” Hendrix’s “Castles Made of Sand,” a Rufus medley of “Pack’d My Bags” and “You Got the Love,” and a duet with Michael McDonald on “You Belong to Me,” which he co-wrote with Carly Simon.

Khan also duets with Mary J. Blige on the track “Disrespectful,” and she hopes “Funk This” fills what she feels has been a void since her last album, the 1998 Reprise release “Come 2 My House.”

“I went to about three companies (after Reprise),” she said. “We almost got to the point where we were gonna record and things got funky so I left. I just figured when it happens it’ll happen, y’know?”

Her voice is singular. I hope this album doesn’t disappoint.