Laurdine "Pat" Patrick

Laurdine Kenneth "Pat" Patrick Jr. (November 23, 1929 – December 31, 1991) was an American jazz musician and composer. He played baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, and Fender bass and was known for his 40-year association with Sun Ra. His father (1905–2001), a native of Kansas, worked as an iron moulder at a factory at the time of his son's birth.

Patrick first learned piano, drums, and trumpet as a child, and then switched to saxophones. He attended and studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago, where he met future bassist Richard Davis and future saxophonists John Gilmore and Clifford Jordan. In 1959, a woman called for Patrick and his wife asked for a message. This precipitated the breakup of his marriage that year. He refused to sign Deval's application to Milton Academy, arguing that Deval would lose his African American identity there. Deval, whose tuition was paid by scholarship, was accepted anyway.

Patrick resided for several years in the Arkestra's communal residences in New York City's East Village and Philadelphia. He also extensively backed Babatunde Olatunji. The group recorded two albums for Saturn Records.

Discography

As leader/co-leader Sound Advice (Saturn, 1977)

As sideman With Terry Adams That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) With Jimmy Heath Really Big! (Riverside, 1960) With Andrew Hill One for One (Blue Note, 1965) With Sam Jones Down Home (Riverside, 1962) With Clifford Jordan Inward Fire (Muse, 1978) With Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (Atlantic 1975) With Freddie McCoy Funk Drops (Prestige, 1966) With Grachan Moncur III and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Echoes of Prayer (JCOA, 1974 ) With James Moody Last Train from Overbrook (Argo, 1958) With A. K. Salim Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (Prestige, 1965) With Mongo Santamaria Go, Mongo! (Riverside, 1962) Viva Mongo! Introduces La Lupe (Riverside, 1963) Watermelon Man! (Riverside, 1963) At the Village Gate, (Battle, 1963, reissued, Riverside, 1965) With Sun Ra Jazz By Sun Ra Vol. 1 (Transition, 1957) Super-Sonic Jazz (Saturn, 1957) Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn, 1959) The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (Savoy, 1962) When Sun Comes Out (Saturn, 1963) Angels and Demons at Play (Saturn, 1965) Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow (Saturn, 1965) Secrets of the Sun (Saturn, 1965) The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1 (ESP Disk, 1965) The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2 (ESP Disk, 1966) Nothing Is (ESP Disk, 1966) Other Planes of There (Saturn, 1966) The Magic City (Saturn, 1966) Visits Planet Earth (Saturn, 1966) When Angels Speak of Love (Saturn, 1966) Interstellar Low Ways (Saturn, 1967) Strange Strings (Saturn, 1967) Atlantis (Saturn, 1969) Nidhamu (Saturn, 1972) With Phil Upchurch Feeling Blue (Milestone, 1967)