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Pat Martino

Pat Martino

Born:
Aug 25, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Alternative Name: Pat Azzara
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Active: '60s - 2000s
  • Instrument: Guitar

Biography

One 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 1998 by Fire Dance. In 2001 Martino released a live album recorded at Yoshi's in California. Two years later he teamed with saxophonist Joe Lovano for Think Tank. Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery appeared on Blue Note in 2006. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Representative Songs:

"Along Came Betty," "Impressions," "Alone Together"

Representative Albums:

East!, We'll Be Together Again, El Hombre

Similar Artists:

Emily Remler, Kenny Burrell, Mike Stern, John Hart, Grant Green, Robben Ford, Tommy Emmanuel, Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine

Influences:

Billy Bean, Johnny Smith, Dennis Sandole, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian

Followers:

Erkan Ogur, Garrison Fewell, Lou Volpe, Bob Rose, Adam Rogers, John Scofield, Paul Abler, John Abercrombie

Performed Songs By:

Bill Carney, Habib Khan, Benny Golson, John Coltrane

Worked With:

Don Schlitten, Jack McDuff, Willis "Gator" Jackson, Rudy Van Gelder, Sherman Ferguson, Paul Bagin, Billy James, Don Patterson, Eric Kloss, Billy Higgins
 
 
Wikipedia: Pat Martino

Pat Martino (born Pat Azzara, August 25, 1944, in South Philadelphia) is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, soul jazz, mainstream jazz and hard bop idioms.

Biography

Martino began playing the guitar at a young age learning from Dennis Sandole, and began playing professionally at age 15. Pat played and recorded early in his career with musicians such as Willis Jackson and Eric Kloss. He also worked with many jazz organists, such as Charles Earland, Jack McDuff, Trudy Pitts, Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson, and Richard Groove Holmes. Throughout the 60's and 70's, Pat made many recordings as a sideman and also under his own name.

In 1980, Martino underwent surgery as the result of a nearly fatal brain aneurysm. The surgery left him with amnesia, leaving him, among other things, without any memory of the guitar and his musical career. With the help of friends, computers, and his old recordings, Pat made a recovery, and learned to play the guitar again. His improvisation method, "Conversion to Minor", is based upon using exclusively minor scales for soloing.

Martino's return to music started once again with the 1987 recording The Return. In 2006 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued Pat's jazz masterpiece East! on Ultradisc UHR SACD. Martino currently tours worldwide.

Discography

  • Pat Martino (1966)- (Unreleased Vanguard LP)
  • El Hombre (1967) - Prestige
  • Strings! (1967) - Prestige
  • East! (1968) - Prestige
  • Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) (1968)
  • Desperado (1970) - Prestige
  • The Visit (1972)
  • Live! (1972)
  • Head & Heart: Consciousness/Live (1972)
  • Essence (1973)
  • Consciousness (1974) - Muse
  • Footprints (1975)
  • Starbright (1976)
  • Exit (rec. Feb.10,1976 - released 1977) - Muse Records MR 5075
  • The Return (1987)
  • Interchange (1994) - Muse
  • The Maker (1994) - Evidence
  • Nightwings (1996) - Muse
  • Cream (1997)
  • All Sides Now (1997) - Blue Note
  • Stone Blue (1998) - with Joyous Lake - Blue Note
  • Comin' and Goin': Exit & the Return (1999)
  • First Light (1999)
  • Givin' Away the Store, Vol. 3 (2000)
  • The Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment (2001) - Ropeadope
  • Live at Yoshi's (2001) - Blue Note
  • Think Tank (2003) - Blue Note
  • Timeless Pat Martino (2003)
  • Starbright / Joyous Lake (2006)
  • Remember (2006)

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