Original jazz influenced funk.Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Patrick was playing roadhouse music as a teenager in rural Mississippi when he heard the evocative sounds of James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Wilton Felder, of the Crusaders. He immersed himself in the music of these great artists and began to discover his own sound that would take him far. In the eighties his father, a high school science teacher, took the family to Portland, Oregon.

Players include George Mitchell who also tours with Diana Ross, Graham Lear who toured for 13 years with Santana, Gene Hauck, Mike Renwick, and a rotating guitar chair with lead vocals. Band puts on an energy show.

Although Patrick has been touring with Diane Schuur around the world this last year playing saxophone, a new record is coming out in the spring with a new sound focused around his vocals.

Patrick continues to go back and forth from LA recording on his own and other peoples projects...