Funk You!

1969 studio album by Don Patterson

Funk You!

Studio album by

Don Patterson

Released| 1969
Recorded| September 24, 1968
New York City
Genre| Jazz
Length| 39:38
Label| Prestige
PR 7613
Producer| Don Schlitten
Don Patterson chronology
| Opus De Don
(1968)  | Funk You!
(1969)  | Oh Happy Day
(1969)

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Funk You! is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [2]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating, "as 1960s jazz with organ goes, this is pretty straight-ahead and boppish, rather than soul-jazz".[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Don Patterson except as indicated

1. "Ratio and Proportion" (Sonny Stitt) – 4:53
2. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) – 4:31
3. "Little Angie" – 6:14
4. "My Man String" – 4:43
5. "Funk in 3/4" – 5:23
6. "It's You or No One" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 6:03

## Personnel

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* Don Patterson – organ
* Charles McPherson – alto saxophone
* Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Pat Martino – guitar
* Billy James – drums

## References

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1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed April 2, 2013
2. ^ a b Unterberger, R. Allmusic Review, accessed April 2, 2013

* v
* t
* e

Don Patterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader

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)

With
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)

With
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)

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* t
* e

Charles McPherson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader

co-leader|

* Bebop Revisited! (1964)
* Con Alma! (1965)
* The Quintet/Live! (1966)
* From This Moment On! (1968)
* Horizons (1968)
* McPherson's Mood (1969)
* Charles McPherson (1971)
* Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady) (1972)
* Today's Man (1973)
* Beautiful! (1975)
* Live in Tokyo (1976)
* New Horizons (1977)
* Free Bop! (1978)
* First Flight Out (1994)
* Come Play with Me (1995)
* Manhattan Nocturne (1997)

With
Charles
Mingus|

* The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
* Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
* My Favorite Quintet (1965)
* Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session (1970)
* Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
* Let My Children Hear Music (1971)
* Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
* Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)

With
others|

* Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
* Just Be Bop (Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1980)
* For Sure! (Kenny Drew, 1978)
* Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (Clint Eastwood, 1996)
* The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964)
* Newer Than New (Barry Harris, 1961)
* Bull's Eye! (Barry Harris, 1968)
* Cello Again (Sam Jones, 1976)
* Boppin' & Burnin' (Don Patterson, 1968)
* Funk You! (Don Patterson, 1968)
* Bird Lives! (Red Rodney, 1973)
* Impact (Charles Tolliver, 1975)

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* t
* e

Sonny Stitt

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader or
co-leader|

* Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
* Stitt's Bits (1950)
* Kaleidoscope (1950–52)
* Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)
* The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954)
* Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
* Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)
* New York Jazz (1956)
* For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956)
* 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57)
* Only the Blues (1957)
* Personal Appearance (1957)
* Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)
* Burnin' (1958)
* Sonny Stitt (1958)
* The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)
* A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)
* Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)
* Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
* Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959)
* Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
* The Hard Swing (1959)
* The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)
* Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)
* Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960)
* Stittsville (1960)
* Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)
* Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)
* The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)
* Feelin's (1962)
* Low Flame (1962)
* Rearin' Back (1962)
* Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)
* Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962)
* Move on Over (1963)
* My Mother's Eyes (1963)
* Now! (1963)
* Primitivo Soul! (1963)
* Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963)
* Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)
* Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
* Stitt Plays Bird (1963)
* My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964)
* Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964)
* Sax Expressions (1965)
* Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965)
* Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)
* Broadway Soul (1965)
* Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965)
* Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)
* Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)
* The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)
* Deuces Wild (1966)
* I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)
* Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966)
* What's New!!! (1966)
* Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
* Little Green Apples (1968)
* Soul Electricity! (1968)
* Come Hither (1969)
* Night Letter (1969)
* Black Vibrations (1971)
* Turn It On! (1971)
* 12! (1972)
* Constellation (1972)
* Goin' Down Slow (1972)
* Tune-Up! (1972)
* Mr. Bojangles (1973)
* The Champ (1973)
* Satan (1974)
* Blues for Duke (1975)
* Dumpy Mama (1975)
* Mellow (1975)
* My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)
* Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976)
* I Remember Bird (1978)
* Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)
* Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)
* In Style (1981)
* The Last Sessions (1982)

And
Gene
Ammons|

* All Star Sessions (1950–55)
* Dig Him! (1961)
* Boss Tenors (1961)
* Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962)
* Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962)
* You Talk That Talk! (1971)
* God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973)
* Left Bank Encores (1973)
* Together Again for the Last Time (1973)

With
Dizzy
Gillespie|

* The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
* Duets (1957)
* The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971)
* The Bop Session (1975)

With
Don
Patterson|

* Patterson's People (1964)
* Tune Up! (1964–69)
* The Boss Men (1965)
* Funk You! (1968)
* Brothers-4 (1969)
* Donny Brook (1969)

With
others|

* A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963)
* In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975)
* The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)

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