Popular jazz guitarist Pat Martino passed away on Monday, November 1 at the age of 77. Martino’s manager Joe Donofrio confirmed the news and the public paid tribute on social media as soon as the news ...

It wasn’t that long ago that the jazz great c performed in Buffalo for the first time in 30 years. That first time back, he asked me “Is the Pine Grill still around?” The reference was to the old jazz ...

There is active dispute over whether guitarist Pat Martino's playing has the drive and edge it had before his brain surgery in 1980. Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, one of the many (briefly) talking ...

The lauded guitarist's career spanned nearly six decades, beginning with an auspicious education in Pennsylvania from a teacher of John Coltrane. Pat Martino, a jazz guitarist revered for the fluid ...

A Celebration of the Life and the Legacy of Pat Martino 35+ Musicians Jazz@thePoint Festival Gateway Playhouse Somers Point, NJ November 3-5, 2022 NOTE: A complete listing of the Celebration events ...

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 ...

On Saturday evening South Philly guitar legend Pat Martino performed a mesmerizing 80-minute set to a capacity audience at Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St. in Philadelphia. Ever the consummate ...

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 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 ...

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 ...