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) | | Funk You! is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.[1] ## Reception[edit] 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[edit] 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[edit] * Don Patterson – organ * Charles McPherson – alto saxophone * Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone * Pat Martino – guitar * Billy James – drums ## References[edit] 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) * v * 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) * v * 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) *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template