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Don Patterson

Don Patterson

born on 22/7/1936 in Columbus, OH, United States

died on 10/2/1988 in Philadelphia, MS, United States

Don Patterson (organist)

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Don Patterson (July 22, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - February 10, 1988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz organist.

Patterson played piano from childhood and was heavily influenced by Erroll Garner in his youth. In 1956, he switched to organ after hearing Jimmy Smith play the instrument. In the early 1960s, he began playing regularly with Sonny Stitt, and he began releasing material as a leader on Prestige Records from 1964 (with Pat Martino and Billy James as sidemen). His most commercially successful album was 1964's Holiday Soul, which reached #85 on the Billboard 200 in 1967.[1] Patterson's troubles with drug addiction hobbled his career in the 1970s, during which he occasionally recorded for Muse Records and lived in Gary, Indiana.[2] In the 1980s he moved to Philadelphia and made a small comeback, but his health deteriorated over the course of the decade, and he died there in 1988.

Discography

  • Goin' Down Home (Cadet Records, 1963)
  • Patterson's People (Prestige, 1964)
  • Hip Cake Walk (Prestige, 1964)
  • The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Prestige, 1964)
  • Holiday Soul (Prestige, 1964)
  • Satisfaction! (Prestige, 1965)
  • The Boss Men (Prestige, 1965)
  • Soul Happening! (Prestige, 1966)
  • Mellow Soul (Prestige, 1967)
  • Four Dimensions (Prestige, 1967)
  • Boppin' & Burnin' (Prestige, 1968)
  • Opus De Don (Prestige, 1968)
  • Funk You! (Prestige, 1968)
  • Oh Happy Day (Prestige, 1969)
  • Brothers-4 (Prestige, 1969)
  • Donny Brook (Prestige, 1969)
  • Tune Up! (Prestige, 1964-69)
  • The Return of Don Patterson (Muse, 1972)
  • These Are Soulful Days (Muse, 1973)
  • Movin' Up! (Muse, 1977)
  • Why Not... (Muse, 1978)

With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

  • I Only Have Eyes for You (Prestige, 1962)
  • Trackin' (Prestige, 1962)

With Eric Kloss

  • Introducing Eric Kloss (Prestige, 1965)
  • Love and All That Jazz (Prestige, 1966)

With Sonny Stitt

  • Boss Tenors in Orbit! (Verve, 1962) - with Gene Ammons
  • Feelin's (Roost, 1962)
  • Low Flame (Jazzland, 1962)
  • Shangri-La (Prestige, 1964)
  • Night Crawler (Prestige, 1965)
  • Deuces Wild (Atlantic, 1966)
  • Parallel-a-Stitt (Roulette, 1967)
  • Soul Electricity! (Prestige, 1968)
  • Black Vibrations (Prestige, 1971)
  • ((Soul people)) ( Prestige/Transatlantic, 1968)

References

  1. [Don Patterson (organist) at All Music Guide Billboard], Allmusic
  2. Steve Huey, [Don Patterson (organist) at All Music Guide Don Patterson] at Allmusic
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