Spaceman Patterson

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William "Spaceman" Patterson is a composer, arranger, producer, music director, director and entrepreneur who has collaborated with Miles Davis and James Brown.[1] He was one of the musicians in Davis' line-up in the 1980s.[2][3] He also produced Melvin Van Peebles album Ghetto Gothic.[4] In 1992, Patterson provided music for Ntozake Shange's The Love Space Demands, an adaptation of some of her poetry.[5][6] In 2003, he was musical director for the play Dream on Monkey Mountain presented at the Harlem School of the Arts.[7] In 2010, Patterson, long-time collaborator of Bill Cosby who worked on The Cosby Show,[8][9] assembled Cosby's album The Cosnarati: State Of Emergency.[10][11] Patterson told the Associated Press that when Cosby contacted him about making the album, "People started speculating, is he going to rap about Jell-O Pudding Pops or what?"[12]

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