Ann Patterson

b. c.1950, Texas, USA. As a kid Patterson learned to try out piano, then turned to oboe, before shifting towards the saxophone family members. Directed partly by parental pressure and partially due to the prejudice against ladies in music, she examined to be always a instructor of music. After participating in North Texas School and the School of Illinois, she started teaching. She wedded around this period and transferred with her hubby to California. She continuing to instruct but was disappointed both with this function and in her relationship. After her divorce she begun to appear even more towards playing, not really teaching, even though over the western world coast worked in a variety of rings including one led by Don Ellis. She set up a high popularity as a new player who could possibly be asked for industrial work also to play jazz, ideally having a bebop slant. With time, Patterson began to play with an all-female music group despite her recognition that the type of such rings is sometimes restricting. Impressed by the product quality and seriousness from the music artists with whom she was right now working, she continuing for some time, appearing in the Kansas Town Ladies’s Jazz Event, and on tv for the Johnny Carson Display. Subsequently, she remaining the music group and got over management of the feminine big music group, Maiden Voyage, looking to develop a industrial ‘dance day’ music group, but one which may possibly also play unique and challenging music to be able to use fully and expand the abilities and capabilities of its people. Affected on alto saxophone by Charlie Parker and Phil Woods, Patterson is really a forward-thinking musician with an enthusiastic sense of the type and origins of jazz but with an authentic attitude for the prejudices against ladies. Her personal features and the fantastic respect afforded to Maiden Voyage did much to breakdown these prejudices, specifically amongst man jazz music artists in California.