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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Johnny Pate
Johnny Pate
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| Other authors / contributors: | Pate, Johnny, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Las Vegas, Nevada 2004 September 30.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Jazz bassist and music arranger John W. Pate, Sr. was born December 5, 1923 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He graduated from Bloom Township High School in 1942. Drafted by the U.S. Army, he joined the 218th AGF Army Band. Pate formed the Johnny Pate Trio and Combo in 1957; he was also house bassist for Chicago's Blue Note Jazz Club. Johnny Pate's bass solo on Satin Doll is featured on the album Duke Ellington Live at The Blue Note (1959). Contacted by Carl Davis of Chicago's Okeh Records, Pate collaborated with Curtis Mayfield on the 1963 hit Monkey Time and produced the Impressions' hits Amen, We're A Winner and Keep On Pushin'. He arranged for B.B. King, Betty Everett, Gene Chandler and Jerry Butler. During the 1970s, Pate orchestrated and arranged film scores for Superfly and Shaft In Africa. In 2003, Pate was honored in Las Vegas as the "unsung hero of popular music.".
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