Don Patterson
Don Patterson (1932–1988, dates pending a dedicated source), American soul-jazz organist of the post-Jimmy Smith school, a Prestige-label mainstay.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-jimmy-smith.md]
Why he matters
- Named by Jimmy Smith's Wikipedia article among the jazz organists in the Smith lineage.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-jimmy-smith.md]
- Named by Hammond Organ Co.'s history in the swinging-Sixties soul-jazz legion alongside Jimmy McGriff, "Brother" Jack McDuff and "Groove" Holmes.^[raw/articles/hammondorganco-hammond-story.md]
- The Vinyldiscovery soul-jazz survey lists him among the "Jimmy Smith disciples" organists who defined the bluesy 1960s style.^[raw/articles/vinyldiscovery-organ-jazz-soul-jazz.md]
- The organissimo forum's Blue-Note-Turns-66 thread highlights the Don Patterson Trio — Patterson (organ), Jerry Byrd (guitar), Billy James (drums) — with Goin' to Meeting and Satisfaction! (Prestige, recorded 19 July 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio) as representative sessions.^[raw/articles/organissimo-bft66-hammond-b3.md]
Related
- jimmy-smith — the style's origin point
- jack-mcduff / richard-groove-holmes — fellow sixties soul-jazz organists
- groove-merchant — the 1970s label that kept this school alive