Jazz Articles about Pat Pratico

Take Five With Pat Pratico

by AAJ Staff
August 29, 2013

Meet Pasquale J Pratico:I was born in Trenton in 1955 to an Italian-American family. My brothers and my younger sister were raised in a family restaurant business. I learned to cook and still cook most of the time with the help of my wife, Mary. My uncles Nate and Vince are professional musicians and they--along with the musicians my father hired to play in the restaurant-- inspired me. I started in a wedding band with my older brother ...