John Patton - 31 Albums - Jazz Organ

John Patton, often known as Big John Patton, was one of Blue Note's busiest soul-jazz organists during the golden age of the Hammond B-3. Between 1963 and 1970 Patton cooked up around a dozen albums' worth of material as a leader and sat in with a dizzying procession of skilled improvisers. Patton also enjoyed a long overdue comeback during the '90s.


List of included albums with Patton as leader or sideman in cronological order:

1962 Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul
1963 Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
1963 Grant Green - Blues For Lou
1963 John Patton - Along Came John (included in the Mosaic Select compilation)
1963 Johnny Griffin & Matthew Gee - Soul Groove
1963 Grant Green - Am I Blue
1963 Harold Vick - Steppin' Out
1963 Lou Donaldson - A Man With A Horn
1963 John Patton - Blue John
1963 Lou Donaldson - Signifyin'
1963 Don Wilkerson - Shoutin'
1963 Red Holloway - The Burner
1964 Lou Donaldson - Possum Head
1964 John Patton - The Way I Feel (included in the Mosaic Select compilation)
1965 Grassella Oliphant - The Grass Is Greener
1965 John Patton - Oh Baby (included in the Mosaic Select compilation)
1965 John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
1966 George Braith - Laughing Soul
1966 John Patton - Got A Good Thing Goin'
1966 Clifford Jordan - Soul Fountain
1967 Grant Green - Iron City
1968 John Patton - That Certain Feeling (included in the Mosaic Select compilation)
1968 John Patton - Boogaloo
1968 John Patton - Understanding (included in the Mosaic Select compilation)
1969 John Patton - Accent On The Blues
1970 John Patton - Memphis To New York Spirit
1977 Johnny Lytle - Everything Must Change
1983 John Patton - Soul Connection
1988 Jimmy Ponder - Jump
1993 John Patton - Blue Planet Man
1994 John Patton - Minor Swing

2003 Mosaic Select 6 - Compilation of five John Patton albums

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This collection is in MP3-format.

The quality of these rips varies, from high quality CD rips to lower quality LP rips.

All songs are tagged by the book.

In addition you will also find a thesis covering John Patton by Javier Gonzalez.

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John Patton was one of the major figures in the funky, blues rooted jazz style known as soul jazz. The Hammond organ was the instrument at the centre of that development, and Patton's relaxed, bluesy, lightly grooving style made a contribution to the genre.

He was born on the Missouri side of Kansas City, then a major jazz centre, and taught himself to play piano. He followed his brother to Washington in the early 1950s, and began playing in the area, initially as a pianist. His became interested in the Hammond organ while working with rhythm and blues singer Lloyd Price, and set up his own Hammond-led trio in 1959.

He moved to New York and began working with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and guitarist Grant Green, and made his recording debut for Blue Note with the saxophonist in 1962. He was a member of Donaldson's band until 1964, then linked up with Grant Green for a time, and also worked with Johnny Griffin, Harold Vick and Clifford Jordan, among others.

He led his own band from 1963 until 1969, and recorded numerous albums in a soul jazz vein for the Blue Note label, which remain the most characteristic examples of his work. The arrival of more contemporary forms of electronic keyboards and the rise of jazz-rock fusion eclipsed both the Hammond and soul jazz in the 1970s, but Patton continued to perform, although he recorded only one album as a leader in the two decades from 1970.

The revival of interest in the instrument in the 1980s saw a renewed interest in his work.

Born: July 12, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri
Died: March 19, 2002 in Montclair, New Jersey

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