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Goin' Down Home
''Goin' Down Home'' is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in Chicago in 1963 and released on the Cadet label in 1966.Edwards, D. & Callahan, MCadet Album Discography (1965-1971)accessed March 22, 2013 Although it is the earliest recordings led by Patterson it as not released until after he had produced several albums for Prestige Records. Reception Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating simply "Includes the Nat Adderley tune "Worksong".Erlewine, MAllmusic Review accessed March 22, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated'' # "Little Duck" - 4:25 # "John Brown's Body" (Traditional) - 4:58 # "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" ( Duke Ellington) - 4:35 # "Frankie Mc" (Paul Weedon) - 3:54 # "It's Magic" - 5:04 # "Goin' Down Home" - 4:17 # "Trick Bag" (Weedon) - 5:43 # "1197 Fair" - 4:49 # "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 5:07 Personnel * Don Patterson - organ *Paul Weedon - guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Patterson (organist)
Don Patterson (July 22, 1936 – February 10, 1988) was an American jazz organist. Early life 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. Career 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. Personal life 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.Steve Huey, Don Pattersonat Allmusic 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 As leader * ''Goin' Down Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's " Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
