Pat Martino


Just learned Pat Martino passed on the 1st of this month. Another giant gone.

My favorite recordings by him include "Footprints", "Exit" and "Consciousness".

What are some of yours? 
stuartk
oh no

rip pat martino, am sure those in heaven will enjoy those sweet guitar rhythms and sounds


Live At Yoshies with another great Philly gut Joey Defrancesco. I saw them together at the Blue Moon in Philly.
Joyous Lake is another good one. 

He always seems to get passed over when many people talk about great fusion guitarists.

Holdsworth, McLaughlin, Di Meola, Gambale, Metheny, Henderson, Coryell, all of abut the same generation of players, seem to get more talk than than Martino.

But he was as good as most of them.
Well, he played Fusion while that was the fashion but it seems to me he was more grounded in Mainstream Jazz than some of those you mention. He and Coryell were similar in this regard.