![]() ![]() ![]() Johnny Pate’s bass solo on “Satin Doll” is featured on the album Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note (1959). Forming the Johnny Pate Trio and Combo in 1957, he was also “house bassist” for Chicago’s Blue Note. Pate studied at the Midwest Conservatory of Music from1950 to 1953 and continued to perform in the 50s with Dorothy Donegan, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, Count Basie and Ahmad Jamal. Returning to Chicago, he arranged musical numbers at the Regal Theatre with Red Saunders. ![]() Higginbotham Combo and jazz violinists Stuff Smith and Eddie South. In 1946, after his tour of service, Pate moved to New York City where bassist Oscar Pettiford helped him get started. Drafted into the United States Army, Pate joined the 218th AGF Army Band where he took up the tuba and played the upright bass in the jazz orchestra. He attended Lincoln Elementary School, Washington Junior High and graduated from Bloom Township High School in 1942. Pate took an interest in the family’s upright piano and learned from the church organist who boarded with them. Pate, Sr., “Johnny Pate,” was born Decemin blue collar Chicago Heights, Illinois. Jazz bassist, rhythm and blues arranger John W. ![]()
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