Read interview for London Jazz News March 2024 here!
'...and Katie Patterson's drumming and deeply positive energy are priceless assets to any band.'
-Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News Feb 2024
'... and martial drum tattoos (from the excellent Katie Patterson) ...'
-John Fordham, The Guardian Feb 2020
'...a brilliantly and refreshingly enthusiastic drummer'
​ - The Mystery Reviewer July 2016
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'Katie is a wonderfully accomplished drummer with a very broad style. Her natural musical feeling and understanding has already made her a highly popular first choice as the combination of strengths she posses is quite rare'.  
 -Martin France (Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz)

'...she plays the drums with a gloriously infectious joy, and she writes very cleverly, and it is no great wonder that she was voted this year’s Jazz Yorkshire Young Musician of the Year.
​- Mike Gordon @ Scarborough Jazz, July 2012
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'Katie Patterson was dynamism itself on drums.' 
-Brian Payne - Jazz Journal for Scarborough Jazz Festival 2021
'Special note for the drummer who was another highlight of the night, not only being incredibly skilled and enthusiastic but also smiled from start to end'
​- North West End Review April 2016
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''Excellent drumming'
-Brian Priestley, Jazzwise Magazine June 2011
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'...drummer Katie Patterson stepping out of her more controlled persona to portray a very crotchety indeed Anger.'
​- Scottish Hearald December 2014
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