For guitarist Pat Martino, the time-honored organ combo format represents an old friend, and a musical comfort zone. Martino, who played a one-night stand at the Dakota jazz club Monday, started his ...

Learning to play guitar once is hard enough. Having to do it twice is truly mind-boggling. Pat Martino, who has done that and more during a career with more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie ...

The title "Formidable" and the striking cover photo of Pat Martino in profile in front of a statue of a lion suggests that the great guitarist is going to unleash awesome powers. However, the proper ...

But over the next seven years, Martino learned how to play guitar again, partly with the help of his old recordings that his father would play during Pat’s recovery at his parents’ home in ...

Jazz guitarist Pat Martino will share his story today of how music helped him recover from a near-fatal brain aneurysm during a presentation in Bethlehem. Pat Martino lives for the moment. Even if it ...

Guitar god Pat Martino, 71, has been a force on the jazz scene for decades, pushing musical boundaries, and playing in every style imaginable. But in the middle of his career he lost his mind, and his ...

Pat Martino, a jazz guitarist revered for the fluid precision and blistering speed of his playing — both before and after he was forced to relearn the instrument following a mid-career brain aneurysm ...

At this point, the amazing return of Pat Martino from total memory loss due to a brain aneurysm in 1980 has become a secondary story - by now he has three discs on Blue Note under his belt. At this ...