Impressions of a Patch of Blue | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Walt Dickerson Quartet and Sun Ra |
Cover: | dickersonpatchlp.jpg |
Released: | 1966 |
Recorded: | 1965 |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 35:21 |
Label: | MGM |
Producer: | Tom Wilson |
Chronology: | Walt Dickerson |
Prev Title: | Walt Dickerson Plays Unity |
Prev Year: | 1964 |
Next Title: | Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things |
Next Year: | 1974 |
Impressions of a Patch of Blue is a 1966 album by vibraphonist Walt Dickerson with keyboardist Sun Ra in a rare appearance as a sideman. It is based on themes from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film A Patch of Blue (1965) starring Sidney Poitier.[1] Sun Ra plays the harpsichord, an instrument rarely used in a jazz setting. It is the last album Dickerson recorded before his decade long sabbatical from jazz before his comeback in the mid-1970s.