Patrão

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{{Infobox album

| name = Patrão

| type = Album

| artist = Ron Carter

| cover = Patrão.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1981

| recorded = May 19– 20, 1980

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Jazz

| length = 37:25

| label = Milestone
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| producer = A Retrac Production

| chronology = Ron Carter

| prev_title = New York Slick

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Parfait

| next_year = 1982

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Patrão is an album by bassist Ron Carter which was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in 1980 and released on the Milestone label the following year.[http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/milestone.pdf Milestone Label discography] accessed November 2, 2017[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Milestone_9050.htm Jazzlists: Milestone Records 9000 series discography], accessed November 2, 2017[https://www.jazzdisco.org/ron-carter/catalog/#milestone-m-9099 Ron Carter catalog], accessed November 2, 2017

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album |id=mw0000100638 |title= Ron Carter: Patrao – Review |accessdate=November 2, 2017}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=234}}

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