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Pat Martino: To Renew A Life In Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
CAUTION! This interview may positively change the way you think about and experience music, yourself, and even your life. You risk growing and changing! Pat Martino is not simply a master guitarist and jazz icon. He is insistent on being a whole human being, insistent on being himself, insistent paradoxically on playing and enjoying life to ...
Think Tank
by Victor L. Schermer
It could be said that Pat Martino most fully represents the evolution of jazz guitar artistry from the 1960's to the present day. His playing displays a striking continuity over time, even though disrupted in mid-stream by his well-known bout with a brain aneurysm that led to nearly total amnesia, and from which he more than ...
Live From Zanzibar Blue: Pat Martino Quintet
by Victor L. Schermer
Pat MartinoZanzibar Blue Philadelphia, PA October 11, 2003 Without it being spoken, guitarist Pat Martino's gig at Zanzibar Blue on October 10 and 11, was, in a certain sense, Philadelphia's way of honoring this musical legend on his own home turf. These two nights were extraordinary for a jazz ...
Blue Note Records: The Biography
by Victor L. Schermer
Blue Note Records: The Biography Richard Cook Justin, Charles, and Co. 2003 ISBN: 1932112103 The early development of modern jazz owes a large debt to a handful of idealistic entrepreneurs who worked in the background with a love of the music and a desire to promote ...
Richard Cook, Author Of "Blue Note Records: The Biography"
by Victor L. Schermer
Richard Cook is an Englishman who resides in West London. He is the author of the recently-published Blue Note Records: The Biography and the co-author of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Although he frequently comes to New York, it was necessary for practical reasons to conduct the interview via email correspondence. As one more ...
Tranography: A Juxtaposition of Apparent Conflicts Between Two Biographies
by Victor L. Schermer
The following material was provided to All About Jazz by Dr. Cuthbert Simpkins, a noted John Coltrane biographer. We would like to thank Dr. Simpkins for his efforts. --Vic Schermer [Despite several biographies of John Coltrane , confusion understandably exists regarding some aspects of his life and work. Because of the mythological and legendary status of ...
Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matissse and Joyce
by Victor L. Schermer
On a Friday evening in early December of last year, I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to hear classical guitarist Jason Vieaux in recital. As I climbed the fabulous steps where Rocky trod, and walked into the interior of this monumental building housing many of the world's greatest art treasures, I heard the sounds ...
Mary Ellen Desmond: Darn That Dream
by Victor L. Schermer
It is this writer's impression that, here in the Philadelphia area, some of our finest contemporary jazz artists are like diamonds in the earth, appreciated by those who know them but awaiting a larger national and international audience. Hopefully, the best of them will follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Bruno, whose extraordinary guitar musicianship has ...
