Johnny Pate

John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former musician, a jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger, and leading figure in Chicago soul, pop, and rhythm and blues.
He learned piano and tuba as a child and later picked up the bass guitar. He learned arranging while serving in the United States Army.
Following stints with Coleridge Davis and Stuff Smith in the 1940s,[ Johnny Pate] at Allmusic in 1951, Pate was recording on... more