Patterson played piano from childhood and was heavily influenced by Erroll Garner in his youth.
In 1956, he switched to organ after hearing Jimmy Smith play the instrument.
His most commercially successful album was 1964's Holiday Soul, which reached #85 on the Billboard 200 in 1967.
[2] In the 1980s, he moved to Philadelphia and made a small comeback, but his health deteriorated over the course of the decade, and he died there in 1988.
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