Understanding

About Understanding

Understanding is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Understanding is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and stated "the endless repetitions on these rather simplistic originals may drive alert listeners batty after a while."

Track listing

All compositions by John Patton except where noted

"Ding Dong" (Harold Alexander) - 5:38

"Congo Chant" - 9:05

"Alfie's Theme" (Sonny Rollins) - 4:40

"Soul Man" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 6:13

"Understanding" (Sam Gary, Mark Nash) - 6:52

"Chitlins con Carne" (Kenny Burrell) - 6:30

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 25, 1968.

Personnel

Big John Patton - organ

Harold Alexander - tenor saxophone, flute

Hugh Walker - drums

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Notable quotes

“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond.”
— Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620), Aphorism 48
“Both churches and universities — insofar as they live up to their true function — serve the ennoblement of the individual. They seek to fulfill this great task by spreading moral and cultural understanding, renouncing the use of brute force.”
— Albert Einstein, in "Moral Decay" (1937); Later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
“Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.”
— David Hume, in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, (1748), Ch. XII: Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy, Part III
“The expectancy of an eternal salvation will reconcile everyone with his neighbor, with his friend, and with his enemy in an understanding of the essential.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, in Three Upbuilding Discourses (8 June 1844), p. 265
“But understand them, people say. And one does. But sometimes understanding is not comforting or flattering to the understood.”
— Jay Nordlinger, in "Change and Determination: After 9/11, a shaking up" (September 11, 2002), speech at a conference in Salonika, Greece, on media and terrorism
“You wouldn't ask a blind man to appreciate a scene of beauty, nor a deaf man to enjoy the sounds of drums and bells. But it is possible to be blind and deaf in one's deep understanding, as well as physically.”
— Zhuangzi, The Book of Chuang Tzu, as translated by M. Palmer, et. al. (Penguin: 1996), p. 4

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