Laurdine "Pat" Patrick

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Laurdine K. "Pat" Patrick (November 23, 1929 - December 31, 1991) was a baritone saxophone, alto saxophone and Fender bass player best-known for his over forty years' association with Sun Ra.

Patrick was born in East Moline, Illinois to Laverne and Laurdine Patrick.^[1] As well as his long-term membership of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Patrick also played with John Coltrane (appearing on Africa/Brass in 1961), Mongo Santamaría (appearing on the hits Watermelon Man and Yeh Yeh), and in Thelonious Monk's quartet in the early 1970s. Pat Patrick also spent time in Duke Ellington's Orchestra and extensively backed Babatunde Olatunji. Patrick lived in Sun Ra's communal residences, first in New York City's East Village, then in Philadelphia. ^[2]

His children are Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and Rhonda Sigh by his former wife Emily, and has at least one child outside of his marriage. An unknown woman called for Pat, Emily asked for the message. "The message was this: 'Tell him our baby needs shoes.'" News of this precipitated his 1959 marriage breakup. ^[2] He refused to sign Deval's application to Milton Academy, arguing that Deval would lose his African-American identity. Deval, whose tuition was paid by scholarship, was accepted anyway. ^[2]