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 ...

If you had a chance to hear guitarist Pat Martino when he performed in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago, you may have wondered how he does what he does. Today for Music Education Monday, you may get at ...

Pat Martino's playing defines elegance. His hands dance on the strings to produce a sublime vocalization infusing your whole body, not merely resonating in your ears. "It's his humanity," comments ...

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 ...

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 ...

But as Mr. Martino recorded his first dozen albums, veering from hard bop into soul, blues and Eastern music, he also began experiencing mysterious headaches and seizures. When he suffered a ...