Brothers-4
1969 studio album by Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt
Brothers-4 | ||||
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Studio album by Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | September 15, 1969 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Prestige PR 7738 | |||
Producer | Bob Porter | |||
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Sonny Stitt chronology | ||||
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Brothers-4 is an album by organist Don Patterson with saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.[1] The album features guitarist Grant Green, who was credited as Blue Grant for contractual reasons, being then signed to Blue Note Records. The 2001 CD release added 6 bonus tracks recorded at the same session but issued on other albums.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "not the crowning achievement for any of the principals, but they still stand in the front ranks of organ jazz".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Don Patterson except where noted.
- "Brothers 4" – 8:52
- "Creepin' Home" (Billy James) – 6:50
- "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (Irving Berlin) – 8:26
- "Walk On By" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) -8:35
- "Donny Brook" (Grant Green) – 8:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Mud Turtle" – 9:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Good Bait" (Count Basie, Tadd Dameron) – 8:31 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Starry Night" (John H. Densmore) – 5:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Tune Up" (Miles Davis) – 5:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
- Don Patterson – organ
- Sonny Stitt – varitone, tenor saxophone
- Grant Green – guitar
- Billy James – drums
References
- ^ Prestige Records discography accessed April 2, 2013
- ^ a b Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed April 2, 2013
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1347. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Don Patterson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader
or
co-leader
- Goin' Down Home (1963)
- The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (with Booker Ervin, 1964)
- Hip Cake Walk (with Booker Ervin, 1964)
- Patterson's People (with Sonny Stitt and Bookler Ervin, 1964)
- Holiday Soul (1964)
- Tune Up! (1964–69)
- Satisfaction! (1965)
- The Boss Men (with Sonny Stitt and Billy Jones, 1965)
- Soul Happening! (1966)
- Mellow Soul (1967)
- Four Dimensions (1967)
- Boppin' & Burnin' (1968)
- Opus De Don (1968)
- Funk You! (1968)
- Oh Happy Day (1969)
- Brothers-4 (with Sonny Stitt, 1969)
- Donny Brook (with Sonny Stitt, 1969)
- The Return of Don Patterson/The Genius of the B-3 (1972)
- These Are Soulful Days (1973)
- Movin' Up! (1977)
- Why Not... (1978)
Sonny
Stitt
- Boss Tenors in Orbit! (and Gene Ammons, 1962)
- Feelin's (1962)
- Low Flame (1962)
- Shangri-La (1964)
- Soul People (and Booker Ervin, 1964–69)
- Night Crawler (1965)
- Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
- Soul Electricity! (1968)
- Black Vibrations (1969)
others
- I Only Have Eyes for You (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1962)
- Trackin' (1962)
- Introducing Eric Kloss (1965)
- Love and All That Jazz (Eric Kloss, 1966)