Patterson

In another of those two-fers that are going to tangle discographies for some time to come, this bears the title of a Don Patterson album, The Boss Men, and includes all of the material from that LP. However, this CD, though it's also called The Boss Men, is billed to both Sonny Stitt and Don Patterson, and combines the original Patterson The Boss Men LP with another album cut in 1965, Night Crawler, that was billed to Sonny Stitt, although it featured the exact same lineup (Stitt on alto sax, Patterson on organ, Billy James on drums) as The Boss Men. Not only that, the CD adds two cuts from a Patterson 1964 LP, Patterson's People, also featuring the Stitt-Patterson-James trio. As for the original The Boss Men, it's a respectable straight-ahead jazz-with-organ session…

Later work by Don Patterson - one of the best, and most free-swinging of the 60s soul jazz organists - recorded here in the early 70's, with the same tight organ jazz feel as his records for Prestige! Eddie Daniels plays tenor, alto, and soprano on the album - and the rest of the group includes Ted Dunbar on guitar, and the great Freddie Waits on drums. The quartet plays nice long takes of some groovy contemporary tunes, like "Theme from The Odd Couple" and "Theme from Love Story", both of which come across amazingly well - plus the original tune "Jesse Jackson", and a version of Jimmy Garrison's "Lori".

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