Spaceman Patterson

William "Spaceman" Patterson is a composer, arranger, producer, music director, director and entrepreneur who has collaborated with Miles Davis and James Brown. He was one of the musicians in Davis' line-up in the 1980s. He also produced Melvin Van Peebles album Ghetto Gothic. In 1992, Patterson provided music for Ntozake Shange's The Love Space Demands, an adaptation of some of her poetry. In 2003, he was musical director for the play Dream on Monkey Mountain presented at the Harlem School of the Arts. In 2010, Patterson, long-time collaborator of Bill Cosby who worked on The Cosby Show, assembled Cosby's album The Cosnarati: State Of Emergency. 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?"