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Pat
MartinoOne
of the most original of the jazz-based guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, Pat
Martino made a remarkable comeback after brain surgery in 1980 to correct an aneurysm
caused him to lose his memory and completely forget how to play. It took years,
but he regained his ability, partly by listening to his older records.
Martino began playing professionally when he was 15. He worked early on with groups
led by Willis Jackson, Red Holloway, and a series of organists, including Don
Patterson, Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Richard "Groove" Holmes, and Jimmy
McGriff. After playing with John Handy (1966), he started leading his own bands
and heading sessions for Prestige, Muse, and Warner Bros. that found him welcoming
the influences of avant-garde jazz, rock, pop, and world music into his advanced
hard bop style. After the operation, Martino did not resume playing until 1984,
making his recording comeback with 1987's The Return. Although not as active as
earlier, Pat Martino has regained his earlier form, recording again for Muse and
Evidence; he later signed with Blue Note, issuing All Sides Now in 1996, followed
two years later by Stone Blue and in 1999 by Mission Accomplished.
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Martino: The Best of Pat Martino (A Step-by-Step Breakdown
of the Guitar Styles and Techniques of a Modern Jazz Legend) Performed by Pat
Martino, written by Wolf Marshall. For guitar. Format: guitar songbook & CD. With
guitar tablature, standard notation, chord names, introductory text, guitar notation
legend and accompaniment CD. Jazz. Series: Hal Leonard Signature Licks. 110 pages.
9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.
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Pat
Martino Live At Yoshi's - That
Pat Martino's new Live at Yoshi's is a stunning display of jazz-guitar prowess
should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the six-string legend. That
the disc is one of those lucky live albums that captures a night when everything
seemed to be falling into place for Martino and his trio of organist Joey DeFrancesco
and drummer Billy Hart is perhaps more than even the guitarist's most ardent admirers
could have hoped for. DeFrancesco and Hart are both predictably awe-inspiring,
but it's the telepathic chemistry between the three band members and the understandably
thrilled audience that really blasts Live at Yoshi's into a higher realm of live
jazz albums. The trio's interplay on the laid-back version of "All Blues"
seems to reach a new peak with each chorus, culminating in Martino's beautiful
closing unaccompanied cadenza, and the guitarist and DeFrancesco seem to inspire
each other to ever greater heights on the ballad "Welcome to a Prayer."
Those enamored of Martino's fleet-fingered heroics will have plenty to feast on
here--from the breakneck tempo of the opening "Oleo" to the hard-swinging
"El Hombre," Martino and DeFrancesco trade lines with an assurance that
few musicians can muster. Martino has one of the more inspirational personal stories
in music. A guitar legend in the '70s, he had to completely relearn the instrument
after a near-fatal brain aneurysm in 1980--and he can now lay claim to one of
the more inspirational live albums released in years. --Ezra Gale Order
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