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Richard Patterson

#43
KJung, I do not agree with your assessment of this at all. Art is about expressing yourself impeccably no matter how many onlookers are comfortable with it. They are all in the zone up there on that stage. Each person is intricately engaged in what they are creating. You can feel it, you can see it. Patterson does not play safe. He plays with intensity and drive because that's who he is as an artist. He is not Marcus Miller. He is not trying to be. I'm glad he's not. Richard has his own inimitable style which is deep, in the pocket, intense, driving, and exhilarating. If you want to label that 'frantic', go ahead. But one thing you can't label it is 'safe'. And that is what makes great art.
 
#44
Patterson said in a 1994 interview " if I had one regret it would be that I never got to meet Hal Patino" that always stuck with me and from the moment I first read it I have dedicated my life to trying to figure out how Hal Patino does what he does.
 
#46
Hahaha just made it up dude, I don't think mr Patterson is really a fan of the bass player from a Danish black metal group! Just trying to insiuate the ridiculous into situations the same way every other thread turns into a fender thread or a Jaco thread.
 
#48
I just saw Richard Patterson the other night, backing Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald. The show was a birthday present for my father-in-law, I would not have gone otherwise, but I'm glad I got to see this guy play. He laid it down with conviction all night, and you could tell he was having a great time doing it. He picked his spots to step up, and did so with impeccable taste and groove. I was thinking to myself, "Now, this is a bass player."
 
#50
I have been a big Brian Culbertson fan from the first time I heard the song "Alone With You" being played on the smooth jazz radio station in Norfolk, Virginia in 1994. One of my favorite slow Brian Culbertson songs from his earlier CD's is "Together Tonight" and the Bass is so nice. I decided to learn to play the Bassline and pulled out to see who played Bass and it was Richard Patterson. I looked at other CD credits and he was the Bass Player on many songs I loved.

My playing by ear is not so good but as soon as I find the sheet music for that song, I am going to kill it!!
 

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