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Brothers-4 is an album by organist Don Patterson with saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label. The album features guitarist Grant Green, who was credited as Blue Grant for contractual reasons, being then signed to Blue Note Records. The 2001 CD release added 6 bonus tracks recorded at the same session but issued on other albums.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "not the crowning achievement for any of the principals, but they still stand in the front ranks of organ jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by Don Patterson except where noted.

"Brothers 4" – 8:52
"Creepin' Home" (Billy James) – 6:50
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (Irving Berlin) – 8:26
"Walk On By" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) -8:35
"Donny Brook" (Grant Green) – 8:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Mud Turtle" – 9:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
"St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Good Bait" (Count Basie, Tadd Dameron) – 8:31 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Starry Night" (John H. Densmore) – 5:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Tune Up" (Miles Davis) – 5:24 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

Prestige Records discography accessed April 2, 2013
^ Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed April 2, 2013
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1347. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

v t e Don Patterson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Goin' Down Home (1963) The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (with Booker Ervin, 1964) Hip Cake Walk (with Booker Ervin, 1964) Patterson's People (with Sonny Stitt and Bookler Ervin, 1964) Holiday Soul (1964) Tune Up! (1964–69) Satisfaction! (1965) The Boss Men (with Sonny Stitt and Billy Jones, 1965) Soul Happening! (1966) Mellow Soul (1967) Four Dimensions (1967) Boppin' & Burnin' (1968) Opus De Don (1968) Funk You! (1968) Oh Happy Day (1969) Brothers-4 (with Sonny Stitt, 1969) Donny Brook (with Sonny Stitt, 1969) The Return of Don Patterson/The Genius of the B-3 (1972) These Are Soulful Days (1973) Movin' Up! (1977) Why Not... (1978)
With Sonny Stitt	Boss Tenors in Orbit! (and Gene Ammons, 1962) Feelin's (1962) Low Flame (1962) Shangri-La (1964) Soul People (and Booker Ervin, 1964–69) Night Crawler (1965) Parallel-a-Stitt (1967) Soul Electricity! (1968) Black Vibrations (1969)
With others	I Only Have Eyes for You (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1962) Trackin' (1962) Introducing Eric Kloss (1965) Love and All That Jazz (Eric Kloss, 1966)

v t e Sonny Stitt
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50) Stitt's Bits (1950) Kaleidoscope (1950–52) Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954) The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954) Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955) Sonny Stitt Plays (1955) New York Jazz (1956) For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956) 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57) Only the Blues (1957) Personal Appearance (1957) Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957) Burnin' (1958) Sonny Stitt (1958) The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958) A Little Bit of Stitt (1959) Saxophone Supremacy (1959) Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959) Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959) Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959) Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959) Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959) The Hard Swing (1959) The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959) Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960) Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960) Stittsville (1960) Stitt in Orbit (1960–62) Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961) The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961) Feelin's (1962) Low Flame (1962) Rearin' Back (1962) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962) Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962) Move on Over (1963) My Mother's Eyes (1963) Now! (1963) Primitivo Soul! (1963) Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963) Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963) Stitt Goes Latin (1963) Stitt Plays Bird (1963) My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964) Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964) Sax Expressions (1965) Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965) Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69) Broadway Soul (1965) Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965) Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965) Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965) The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965) Deuces Wild (1966) I Keep Comin' Back! (1966) Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966) What's New!!! (1966) Parallel-a-Stitt (1967) Little Green Apples (1968) Soul Electricity! (1968) Come Hither (1969) Night Letter (1969) Black Vibrations (1971) Turn It On! (1971) 12! (1972) Constellation (1972) Goin' Down Slow (1972) Tune-Up! (1972) Mr. Bojangles (1973) The Champ (1973) Satan (1974) Blues for Duke (1975) Dumpy Mama (1975) Mellow (1975) My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975) Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976) I Remember Bird (1978) Stomp Off Let's Go (1976) Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977) In Style (1981) The Last Sessions (1982)
And Gene Ammons	All Star Sessions (1950–55) Dig Him! (1961) Boss Tenors (1961) Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962) Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962) You Talk That Talk! (1971) God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973) Left Bank Encores (1973) Together Again for the Last Time (1973)
With Dizzy Gillespie	The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) Duets (1957) The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971) The Bop Session (1975)
With Don Patterson	Patterson's People (1964) Tune Up! (1964–69) The Boss Men (1965) Funk You! (1968) Brothers-4 (1969) Donny Brook (1969)
With others	A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963) In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)

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