Tune Up!

Tune Up!
Tune Up!
Studio album by Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt
Released	1971
Recorded	July 10 and August 25, 1964 and June 2 and September 15, 1969
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:33
Label	Prestige ; PR 7852
Producer	Ozzie Cadena and Bob Porter
Don Patterson chronology

Last updated May 27, 2025

Tune Up! is an album by organist Don Patterson featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and 1969 which was released by Prestige in 1971.^[1]^[2] The album features unreleased recordings from the sessions that also produced Hip Cake Walk , Patterson's People , Oh Happy Day , Brothers-4 and Donny Brook .

Track listing

All compositions by Don Patterson except as noted

"Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 5:55
"Flyin' Home" (Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman) - 10:20
"Tune Up" (Miles Davis) - 4:28
"Blues for Mom" - 12:50

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 10, 1964 (track 1), August 25, 1964 (track 2), June 2, 1969 (track 4) and September 15, 1969 (track 3)

Personnel

Don Patterson - organ
Virgil Jones - trumpet (track 4)
George Coleman (track 4), Booker Ervin (tracks 1 & 2), Houston Person (track 4), Sonny Stitt (tracks 2 & 3) - tenor saxophone
Grant Green - guitar (track 3)
Billy James (tracks 1–3), Frankie Jones (track 4) - drums

References

↑ Prestige Records discography accessed April 2, 2013
↑ Discogs Album Entry accessed April 2, 2013

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[1] Prestige Records discography accessed April 2, 2013

[2] Discogs Album Entry accessed April 2, 2013

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v t e Don Patterson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As 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)
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 Booker Ervin
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
As leader	The Book Cooks (1960) Cookin' (1960) That's It! (1961) Exultation! (1963) Gumbo! (with Pony Poindexter, 1963) The Freedom Book (1963) The Song Book (1964) The Blues Book (1964) The Space Book (1964) Groovin' High (1963–64) The Trance (1965) Setting the Pace (with Dexter Gordon, 1965) Heavy!!! (1966) Structurally Sound (1966) Booker 'n' Brass (1967) The In Between (1968) Tex Book Tenor (1968) Back from the Gig (with Horace Parlan, 2LP, 1963/68)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) Mingus Ah Um (1959) Mingus Dynasty (1959) Blues & Roots (1959) Mingus (1960) Mingus at Antibes (1960 [1976]) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) Oh Yeah (1961) Tonight at Noon (1961 [1964]) Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
With others	Hot Line (Bill Barron, 1962) Out Front! (Jaki Byard, 1964) Urge (Ted Curson, 1965) Cracklin' (Roy Haynes, 1963) In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss, 1969) Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963) Up & Down (Horace Parlan, 1961) Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963) The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson) Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964) Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964) Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971]) Soul People (Sonny Stitt, 1964) The Quest (Mal Waldron, 1961) Highlife (Randy Weston, 1963) Randy /African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964) Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])

v t e Sonny Stitt
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As 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)

Tune Up!

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