Patrick Adams

Leroy Burgess : “SOME FOLKS YOU WISH COULD JUST LIVE FOREVER.
They can't.. you know. And don't.
Neither will we.
Doesn't stop us from wishing it though.
So it is with this man.
This quiet, humble genius... who took the time to see in me.. what I could not yet see. And presented it to the World.. even as he presented it to me.
Words fail miserably at times such as these...
.. Having no real power to convey the immensity of the actual reality. And we reflect upon the nearly unfathomable Blessing of GOD'S Gift of our moments together.
Patrick's work resounds around my heart.
Guiding my steps.. decade after decade.. like it always belonged there. It did.
And as his Spirit ascends into The KINGDOM we all hope to one day traverse, I carry it still. So very proudly.
GOD has him now.
He was always HIS.
And for fifty-four years of my life, he was mine too.
REST WELL, BELOVED MENTOR.”

Christine Wiltshire: “ It is with the heaviest of hearts that I post this. My mentor, best friend, father of my daughter, and the man who gave me the opportunity to have the career that I've been blessed with is gone. Yesterday, Patrick passed away after a long and difficult battle with cancer. His musical influence was 2nd to none and I know there is not one of you who didn't sing along or tap your feet to one of his creations. In my eyes he will always be a Legend! As arrangements are made, they will be announced in the near future.” 😢🙏💖

Stuart Bascombe: “Thank you Patrick for all that you shared of your gifts. For all of the music, wit, insights and often cryptic responses. Thank you for taking a chance on 5 teenage aspiring recording artists and devoting time and talent to helping them to achieve a measure of their dreams. 5 eventually became 3 and our feet were placed firmly on the path that would change all of our lives forever.
Thank you for the brotherhood that grew between Leroy Burgess, Russell Patterson and I as a result and a catalog of music that continues to sustain us 50 plus years later.
May your spirit transport you swiftly towards union with the Divine. May the Ancestors rejoice as you join their ranks. May your name and works be remembered forever and a day.
May God grant comfort and understanding to all who love you.”

Russell Patterson: “ In the fall of 1968 Leroy Burgess and Stuart Bascombe invited me to become a member of Black Ivory. I was elated until they informed me their manager, Patrick Adams had to meet me first.
When the meeting was scheduled I expected an older man. I was 16yrs old at the time and never expected to meet someone four years older than me. I was also surprised by his musical talent!
Manager, producer, songwriter Patrick Adams changed my life!
I will forever be thankful to him for helping me achieve my dream of becoming a professional singer. And I will always remember and miss that mischievous smile of his.
Please rest in peace with the ancestors and know you are loved!”

Rochelle Fleming: “I am so so sorry to hear about the passing of the fabulous Patrick Adams. The last time I had seen him was a few years back at an event. It was such a pleasure working with him on one of my earliest solo projects, "Love Itch" on Prelude Records. May he rest in eternal peace.” 💔

David Charles ‘DC’ LaRue: “PATRICK ADAMS (1950-2022)
My deepest sympathy to his family and friends.
Without a doubt one of the most influential writers, producers, arrangers and artists on the planet. In his lifetime, this gentleman helped establish disco as a major worldwide musical genre.
His presence on the planet will be genuinely missed.
I was an honor and a privilege to have worked with him in the studio and to have been able to have called him a friend.
RIP”

Ray Caviano (RFC Records): “RIP PATRICK ADAMS #DanceMusicPioneer
The Dance Music Community mours the passing of the legendary PATRICK ADAMS, the architect of some of the most prolific and creative Dance music ever produced.
I was extremely proud and honored to have worked with PATRICK with the Venus Dodson album on Warner/RFC RECORDS.”

Marc Mac: “Rest In Peace. We’ve lost a giant. Someone more of us should have known. #PatrickAdams
“If you have listened to the radio at all in the last 40 years, chances are you’ve heard one of Patrick Adams’s songs. He has worked in almost every facet of the industry – songwriting, producing, arranging, engineering, and having an indelible influence on artists across genres. While Adams’s name is spoken with respect within the music industry, he’s barely known outside of it.” - Melissa Locker
We must never stop showcasing the great music our elders left for us and the great talented musicians responsible for the foundations we all jump on today.”

Kirk Degiorgio: “The greatest to ever do it. Disco king. RIP Patrick Adams.”

Dave Lee: “ Very sad news today, the veteran soul disco producer/song writer Patrick Adams has passed. When it comes to the style of music i love Patrick was one of the best that ever lived, especially when it came to his chords and string arrangements. Here’s a few he wrote and produced - Musique - In the Bush, Keep On Jumpin, Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut, Flying High, Rainbow Brown - Till you Surrender, Sine - Just Let Me do My Thing, Main Ingredient - Evening on Love, Donna Mcgee - It Ain't No Big Thing - and that's just some of the better known ones. The word genius gets over used these days but Patrick was one. I never met him but we exchanged many messages on here and i recently re watched his Redbull interview, he had an interesting intelligent perspective on music. Safe onward journey Mr Adams, your music lives on.”

John Luongo: “Patrick was overlooked when it came to awards, a quiet genius who immersed himself in his music as he would create songs, dreaming of instrumentation and arrangements worthy of the finest acknowledgment in the world, and yet possibly because of his quiet demeanor and the fact that dance music, his genre of choice, was never given the true attention and respect that it and he truly deserved early on. In spite of it all, he did have an impact on just about every sort of music at the height of his and its heyday.
Most people out there, outside of the dance community historians and true fans, may not know his name, however for people like myself he was a hero, a superstar, somebody to be reckoned with, and a constant source of visionary achievements which others would marvel at while never coming close to accomplishing what he did.
He was the creator of Musique, Phreek, The Universal Robot Band , Inner Life and a host of other notables in this industry who he worked on such as Herbie Hancock, Candi Staton, and some of the best of the best in his quiet, demure, supportive way.
Today is a horrible day for me, because I know his family as well as I knew him and there is so much sadness to go around here that it’s hard for me to just focus on one of the areas of the broken heart I have.
Let this serve as a lesson to many of you in this industry and in general, that regardless of how much of an impact you may make in your life, it’s not important for the world to know who you are as long as you know who you are and what you meant in the grand scheme of things.
I think it was the defensive shell he put around himself that enabled him to keep creating and realize that the accolades he never received at the level he should’ve received them weren't that important as knowing the people who cared for him loved him and worked in the industry were inspired by him and were simply attracted to him for what he did, because they sincerely knew just how great he was.
I'm glad that before he left us I had many conversations with him where I told him he was the most creative, underserved individual I had ever encountered in the music business, and I still stand by that now. I got to say I love you and he knew how important that was to me as well as what it meant to him.
My friend of many years, a true friend of the music industry and especially the dance music industry and community, the incredible incomparable, Patrick Adams, has passed away succumbing to a long bout with cancer.
I’m sure those in Heaven are up there waiting as they Keep on Jumpin', awaiting for his tardy entrance for one of their own to come strutting in, humming Push Push In the Bush and knowing that every day from now on he will be there making everyday a special musical Weekend for everyone in Heaven!
When you Wake up Tomorrow the sadness of this may start to subside but only due to the fact that we sill have his music to comfort us. Patrick, you're now on your way to an eternal life of happiness, I just want you to know that nothing is the same ever since you came and have now left us baby!
God Bless Christine Wiltshire her daughter, Courtney Joi and our wonderful industry for its gonna be tough getting over him but at least we can be grateful that we were the beneficiaries of someone this good who lived and created during our lifetime.
Patrick Adams, creator and dear friend has died at the age of 72.”