Jazz for aficionados

By the way i am flabbergasted by PAT MARTINO music...

I listened few more albums they are ALL of interest and the music is creative surprizing...

It is not only my favorite guitar player now but one of my best jazz artist forever...

His playing is obsessionately hypnotical, motivated like in a trance....His mastering creativity for a composer dominate all the musicians around him... The music is his children even when he does not play...

I cannot stop listening him... I dont remember a so strong experience before, save for Chet Baker and Bill Evans and very few others....

His music is more intense than just beautiful like Scriabin music , and the reason are the same and related to this fact : these 2 musicians are "possessed" by a music creativity "daemon" ....In the 2 cases Scriabin and Martino so different they are, melodical power are under the domination of some powerful colored reoccuring chords flows...And these chords in the 2 cases swallowed me up and down like Jonas swallowed by the whale and dancing in his belly....

Read this description of his inspired innovative playing in wiki :

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Martino stated, "There are elements within an instrument’s architecture that initiate a continuous source of valuable information. For the guitar, there are two. The first is the major third interval, and the second is the minor third interval. Once we view their repetitive information, they begin to appear as a series of automatic functions."^[8]

Martino’s lines contain chromatic links outside any particular IIm7 chord that might be conceptualized over a chord progression, even in the examples he provides in his books and instructional videos. On his bulletin board he has stated that he formulated the system more as a way to explain his playing rather than as something to use to create music. In his own words, "although the analysis of some of my recorded solos have been referred to as modal, personally I’ve never operated in that way. I’ve always depended upon my own melodic instinct, instead of scale like formulas."^{[9] »}

All the albums i listened to are great , this one is also a great one:

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CdZddRpAV0}

I just happened to pass this way and was fortunate enough to come across the Paul Martino posts. Thank you guys for this! As I had never heard of him!

mahgister, for years I thought John Coltrane was the father of free jazz until I read one of your ’poems’ on another thread and found out that it was Ornette Coleman that is the father of ’free jazz’. Nicely done!

schubert I get it! And I would like to share something with you. Just recently George Benson was asked who he thought was the best guitar player and without hesitation he said Django Rinehart. Not Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang nor Wes Montgomery.

Just recently George Benson was asked who he thought was the best guitar player and without hesitation he said Django Rinehart. Not Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang nor Wes Montgomery.

My feeling is exactly the same feeling which he spoke about...

These two artists dont look for any music and dont play after a piece of music searching for another piece of music.

They are the music and their "swing" and their chords gesture is always the "ever present origin" of all the music they will ever play...

All their musics pieces or songs sound more like ONE piece of playing than different pieces...They dont need trying to be originals, they effortlessly, innately and naturally are...

They cannot play a piece of music without making it their own....If they play with many musicians,so good they are, we listen only them through the other musicians...

Their music sound at least like a very rapid dance or like a trance, they induce hypnosis of the listener... They are intense not only beautiful...

Jimi Hendrix was like that,and Ostad Elahi or Liszt ghost playing through Ervin Nyiregyházi, or Sofronitsky playing Scriabin, to give some examples that comes to me....

Martino and Reinhardt are on par and among the top musicians there is and there was....Not only for me....

Interesting you mentioning the word ’flabbergasted’. Since you have given so much to us, here is a link to some eclectic music that you just may enjoy!☺

http://flabbergasted-vibes.org/

Thank you very much!

the web site seems more than interesting....

My best....