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How little he could have known the auspicious start he rendered. you will play guitar.' A wish the elder Martino (Azzara) had hoped for himself. Consider the following and I think you'll agree.ДЄs if fulfilling a cosmic inevitability via incantation, Pat's father upon his birth is said to have uttered, 'with these hands. The numerous recordings and anecdotes say it all. A contradiction of terms only with a lesser musician. Winding with effortless, though controlled abandon. just a pure and dominant ferocity of thought to touch -head to fingers -unleashed upon six incredibly heavy yet, yielding strings. There is no doubt, no tentativity in his statements or direction. Beckoning.ДЄs with Miles Davis, a similar dark beauty resides in Martino's tone and sonic substance.ДЄ minor sensibility is experienced both theoretically and sonically. The most unlikely beauty found among the funkiest of surroundings. spread before us to peruse as rough gems happened upon in a Arabian flea market. Soul, definition, a catalyst, and key to life.

Know there is a purpose, a balance, and a logic and logical structure to the universe as sensed through sonic vibrations over time: music. There are some artists who make us smile, rhythmically nod, dance, even feel, but few who elicit what Pat does. And Pat does not serve anything but the music and its potential for depth and unique beauty. Technique serves the music, the musician does not serve the instrument (nor his accumulated facility for its own sake). Though known for his incredible technique but not reliant on it as an end, Pat radiates the dictum which Cecil Taylor has expressed, that: 'Technique is a weapon the do whatever must be done.' And no more or less: efficiency.

Force unleashed 2 challenges series#

After a series of tentative starts he's come back in full, some say better, and with a bit less of the darkness formerly present in his sound. The laurels and repayment for so many years of brilliant output. His loss of memory caused him to have to experience doubt and relearn the guitar at a point that should well have been the height of his career. With this devastating information, Pat immediately flew back to Philly from LA and though he obviously survived, he didn't recognize the family and friends who came to encourage him -those close to him and who he'd performed with, such as George Benson. Due to a brain aneurysm almost twenty years ago, Martino was given the prognosis that he might live for two days and only then a 50% chance if he got an emergency operation. Pat not only learned to play on this level once, but twice.

He seemingly thrives on what would be their resistance to anyone else.

One would think he simply sets unrealistic parameters for himself, but nothing keeps Martino sharper than these challenges themselves. from his long and remarkable self recovery from amnesia brought on by a near fatal aneurysm to the ridiculously heavy string gauges and action he favors, yet nimbly maneuvers. The name resonates a bridge between the true Jazz swing era throughout the organ trio groove and into the modern era and its (digital and electronic) resources of today.ДЄ musical prodigy, Pat has always challenged himself. A name that strikes anything from fear to sheer awe and reverence in musicians who know who this is. This article was first published at All About Jazz in June 2000.