Hip Cake Walk Explained

Hip Cake Walk
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Don Patterson with Booker Ervin
Cover:	Hip Cake Walk.jpg
Released:	1964
Recorded:	May 12 and July 10, 1964
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:50
Label:	Prestige PR 7349
Producer:	Ozzie Cadena
Chronology:	Don Patterson
Prev Title:	The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Patterson's People
Next Year:	1964

Hip Cake Walk is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic writer Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4 stars stating "Organist Don Patterson went through a richly productive period in the '60s, fashioning a fortress of funky organ jazz hi-fi on the Prestige label" and noting the album has "special status".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Patterson except as noted

1. "Sister Ruth" - 5:00
2. "Donald Duck" - 5:45
3. "Rosetta" - 7:15
4. "Hip Cake Walk" - 16:40
5. "Under the Boardwalk" (Kenny Young, Arthur Resnick) - 2:50

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 12 (track 4) and July 10 (tracks 1-3 & 5), 1964

Personnel

• Don Patterson - organ
• Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone (tracks 1–4)
• Leonard Houston - alto saxophone (track 4)
• Billy James - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7300-series/#pr-7349 Prestige Records discography
2. Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review, accessed March 22, 2013