Jazz Articles about Pat Martino

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Pat Martino Trio at Bucks County Community College

by Victor L. Schermer
April 30, 2015

Pat Martino Trio Kevin and Sima Zlock Performing Arts Center Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA April 23, 2015 In the 1960s and 70s, spurred on by the support he received from the great Les Paul, a youthful guitarist Pat Martino evolved his unique style of controlled intensity, “fat" sound, and adherence to the blues idiom he acquired from his work with tenor saxophonist Willis Jackson and organists such as Don Patterson, as ...

Rediscovery

Pat Martino: Joyous Lake

by John Kelman
January 13, 2015

Pat MartinoJoyous LakeWarner Bros.1977 Seemingly a hardcore mainstreamer at heart--though one with no shortage of experimental élan, proven over a series of ten albums from 1967's El Hombre (Prestige) to 1976's wonderful duo with pianist Gil Goldstein, We'll Be Together Again (Muse, 1976)--guitarist Pat Martino came relatively late to the jazz-rock fusion game. His first album to truly plug in, his 1976 Warner Bros. debut, Starbright, was an eclectic affair that mixed synth and electric ...

Live Review

Pat Martino Trio at Chris' Jazz Cafe

by Victor L. Schermer
December 4, 2014

Pat Martino Trio Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA November 29, 2014 Over the years, Pat Martino's guitar artistry has been powerful and consistent, characterized by his precision, strong attack, uncanny mastery of the instrument, and hard rhythmic style honed in his apprenticeship with saxophonist Willis Jackson and organist Jack McDuff. Frequently on the road, and just returned from a tour of South America, Martino delivered on all these qualities in the ...

Album Review

Gene Ludwig / Pat Martino Trio: Young Guns

Read "Young Guns" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2014

The name Young Guns seems ironically amiss until one learns that this recording dates from 1968-69 when organist Gene Ludwig was thirty years old, guitarist Pat Martino twenty-three and drummer Randy Gelispie somewhere in that neighborhood, long before he became fondly known as “Uncle G." The organ trio was in its heyday then, and this one was caught on tape during an exciting live date at Club 118 in Louisville, KY. How many other such performances have been lost forever ...

New York Beat

Pat Martino at Birdland

by Nick Catalano
April 12, 2013

The legendary musical power of Pat Martino was on display at Birdland on April 4, 2013, in all its glory. The myths that have arisen about this formidable guitarist will have new layers when the jazz cognoscenti begin commenting on his latest feats. Martino's burning swing, long the trademark of his improvisational wizardry, acquired added zip, with seminal saxophonist Eric Alexander joining him on the frontline of his latest quartet. The sound of the guitar and tenor ...

Album Review

Pat Martino Quartet: Undeniable

Read "Undeniable" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 4, 2012

Learning to play guitar once is hard enough. Having to do it twice is truly mind-boggling. Pat Martino, who has done that and more during a career with more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel, has vanquished adversity time and again and remains, at age sixty-seven, one of the world's preeminent jazz guitarists. This point of view is Undeniable on Martino's latest album, recorded live in June 2009 with his working group at Blues Alley in Washington, DC. ...

Album Review

Pat Martino Quartet: Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley

Read "Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 9, 2012

Da Pat Martino ci si attende qualcosa di preciso: la riproposizione d'una formula collaudata, che tuttavia trascina ancora. Se l'ascoltatore ricerca una conferma, non rimarrà sorpreso, né soprattutto deluso da Undeniable. I quattro musicisti conoscono bene la lingua in cui s'esprimono: quella propria delle formazioni con organo e chitarra (e senza contrabbasso). Una lingua la cui grammatica Pat Martino ha contribuito a scrivere, collaborando negli anni '60 con un gran numero di organisti: in primis Jimmy Smith, che insieme a ...