Funk You!

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Funk You!
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Studio album by
Released1969
RecordedSeptember 24, 1968
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length39:38
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]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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

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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References

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