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 ...

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 ...

Pat Martino’s story is a fascinating one. The Philly-based jazz guitarist in 1980 was given two hours to live after doctors diagnosed an aneurysm. They rushed him into surgery and cut out a chunk of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and composer Pat Martino died earlier this week at 77. We remember his remarkable life. Bill Milkowski, co-author of Martino’s autobiography, “Here and Now!," joins us.

It’s been nearly 15 years since guitarist Pat Martino returned to action after a difficult recovery from a debilitating brain aneurysm suffered in 1980. And with a string of highly praised albums and ...

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 ...

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 ...