The Alternative Guitar Summit was founded in 2010 by guitarist/composer Joel Harrison. Every year it has included a Music Camp with Master Classes by notable guitarists, and a Music Festival featuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz musician Pat Martino lost almost all memory of his family and his career after suffering a brain aneurysm in the 1970s. But he was able to reverse much of that loss by studying his old recordings ...

Guitarist and composer Pat Martino has quite a story. The Philadelphia-based jazz artist started out as a teenager playing with esteemed organists like Trudy Pitts and Don Patterson, then became a ...

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 ...

He was one of the genre’s most acclaimed players when brain surgery left him with no memory. But he recovered and made music for another three decades. By Neil Genzlinger Pat Martino, whose ...