Hip Cake Walk
“Hip Cake Walk” Don Patterson (Organ) with Booker Ervin (Tenor Sax). Prestige Records. (1964) Funky organ jazz originals by Patterson including the title cut, “Sister Ruth” and”Donald Duck.” Also covers of Earl Hine’s “Rosetta” and the Drifters’ “Under the Boardwalk.” Alto saxophonist Leonard Houston and drummer Billy James join the romp. The cover features a hip, young sister skippin’ round the Flat Iron Building in NYC.
(21 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)
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February 8th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Any cover with shots of NYC up thru the 1970’s is A-Ok with me. Check out the smoky, filmic quality of the background in this shot…so much atmosphere you can feel it.
Do you have a New York category? You should.