I was friends with Pat back in the mid seventies when I took guitar lessons from him. He is an incredible guitar player in addition to being a very humble guy. Truly a legend!
What a band! The album live at Yoshi's with this linup- Joey Defrancesco, organ, Billy Hart, drums and of course Pat Martino on guitar literally changed my life. In early 1999 I'd been declared terminally ill. I was determined to fight and had a great deal of luck along the way. One was hearing Live at Yoshi's in 2002 when it came out. I determined to change from a rock guitarist to a jazz player. It's been a wonderful journey! This band is very profound- spiritual even and its performances remain a yardstick to measure my own playing against. Anyone who knows Pat's story knows what a miracle his life is. In his playing here that is perfectly clear.
oldsyphilitic Great story, yours and his (the "Comeback").The young singer Melody Gardot had a somewhat similar transformation, in this case from a very serious bicycle/car accident.
That's a great story of how Pats playing changed your life. I have been a student of Pat Martino for 21years now and he is a father figure for me when it comes to music and knowledge of improvisation and friend of mine. Pat is truly a genius and I'm very fortunate to have been studying guitar with him for 2 decades now.
I saw Pat play in a small club in the seventies, probably when I was still in High School. It may have been at the old Howard Rumsey's Concerts by the Sea, which was at the pier in Redondo Beach CA, or maybe at the Lighthouse jazz club in nearby Hermosa Beach. He was SO GOOD, wish I could see him play live at least one more time.
It's amazing that even after the amnesia incident Pat was able to recover every ounce of his abilities and end up playing even better. Goes to show you are never to old to learn...
Can this guy fly or what?! Right up there with Wes. This is why jazz is so incredibly awesome and will never be paralleled. Tell me you're not smiling and tapping your feet when you hear this man display his God-given talent!
Pat Martino’s “SYMMETRICAL PARENTAL FORMS” unlock the guitar as only a genius can. There are only 2: the 3-note Augmented triad (1-3-#5), and the 4-note Dim7 chord (1-b3-b5-bb7). These both occur naturally on the guitar, as a C major scale and an Eb minor pentatonic scale occur naturally on the piano. So you take these 2 forms to create other 3-note and 4-note forms. 1) Play 554 on GBE for C+. Lower any one note by a half-step? Create 3 major triads (E-Ab-C). Raise any one note by a half-step? Create 3 (relative!) minor triads (C#m-Fm-Am). - So each Aug. “parent” produces 3 major and 3 relative minor triads. 2) Play 4545 on DGBE for a Dim7 chord. Lower any note by a half-step? Create 4 Dom7 chords. Raise any note by a half step? Create a Half-Dim7 chord. - So that’s 8 other chords “parented” by that one easy-to-finger Dim7 parent, 4 Dom7 and 4 Half-Dim7. - There’s more but that’s a start to Martino’s genius.
Just saw pat tonight...june 1 2010. Looks better than ever, and his hair looks really bad ass...long and thick in the back, not like this...and he played in a white open neck raised color shirt and black vest. He was styling. Best show I've seen him do. Very bluesy, but big and loud, super punchy playing. Spectacular.
Since I started listening to Jazz guitar I've learnt where many of my own guitar heroes like Page, Clapton and Hendrix got their licks. And this guy is incredible on the guitar.
contactkeithstack Please tell me what other scales hendrix plays and give a few songs where he plays other scales. Martino know all scales and uses them. Martino could improvise over any song that hendrix ever played the same cannot be said by any honest person about Hendrix. Hendrix was no where close to being as talented as Martino and you response to my questions will prove that.
maxton Your comment is irrelevant to my argument. "Feel" and a knowledge of scale to chord relationships are NOT mutually exclusive. George Benson knows the scales and yet plays with great feel. The difference is that Benson can play over any progression while the same is not true of any of the Guitarists you mentioned. I am 54 and have been playing guitar since I was 5. I started playing blues because that is what my father played. I think I was 12 when I heard Benson. I can tell you that playing blues/rock was far easier to learn than jazz. I play both with "feel" but as a blues/rock player I was extremely limited.
@dashe60 that's because they are Joey Defrancesco and Byron Landham, they play togheter a LOT :) just heard them with another guitar player in Bern, Switzerland! Was amazing! Keep groovin'
If Pat Martino is this lyrical after brain surgery...imagine what he was like before! George Benson saw him NYC when George was 19 and Pat was 17. George was in awe!
@Manolian Yea, yea , yea... what he said ... the hippest of the hip,and the coolest of the cool ... ( Me live in Amazon Jungle ... we love Pat martino ... he bad- ass jazz player)
Yup, as Guitfiddlejase said, that's Joey De Francesco, he is also a great trumpet player, he plays "a la" Miles. He appears on many other guitar-organ-drums trios, I highly recommend one with John McLaughlin and Dennis Chambers named "The Free Spirits - Live in Tokyo", and also some of the recordings with Spanish Jazz Guitar player Ximo Tebar.
yeah, it's obviously very beneficial to know beforehand how a given note sounds on top of a given harmony, be it via using only your ear or by having studied theory. No one will sound convincing just playing random notes, you have to actually hear the music in your head before you play. "Only play what you hear. If you don't hear anything, don't play anything. " -Chick Corea
Absolutely killin, the ultimate in cool. I cant think of any one else alive other than maybe George Benson that could match something like this.....................not speaking of competing or anything just level of playing.
martino is the man...but do you hear the drummer and the organ? they are on a communication quest. They connect big time. Each guy is listening to the other. This is music!!!
I agree the idea is to analyize the modes as separate entities. Frank Gambales Modes nO Mysterey is a great DVD as he creates harmonies you can loop on your recorder and play for hours in all the modes to your own songs really hearing what they are. Minor dorian is redundant and confusing.
Ebony fretboard and thick nickel rockers GHS strings on my strat and got that Pat's sound but im playing rock -subliminally Pat Martino got the enrgy of a real rocker - he's no bore and no dull moments. in analogy to rock artist his influence and power gives a feel of kurt cobain's energy. Pat Martino # 1
see, the thing is sweeping started with Jazz guitar! you might know this already but for those who don't, one of the most masterful sweepers ever is a guy named Barney Kessel, ferociously badass angular sweeping in service of The Line and not the Lick!! modern sweeper are playing practiced arpeggios over power chord riffs, Jazzers freestyle sweeps in ways that 'shredders' would need to work as hard as anyone else to attain!
For those of you who don't know who the organ player is, HE IS THE GREATEST JAZZ ORGAN PLAYER IN THE WORLD!!! Joey Defrancesco is course!!!!! NONE BETTER! Besides being a fabulous player, Pat is also a really nice and humble guy.
I am 100% sure this is about as good as it gets ever. not to mention there is no one on you tube that has these kind of chops anywhere in regards to playing through changes with that kind of imagination through modes. Buck stops here folks.
@z0mgzt0m for guitarists: pat metheny, john mclaughlin, john scofield, george benson, allan holdsworth, frank gambale, al di meola, paco de lucia, shawn lane, morten faerestrand, etc....those are at varying levels of "jazz" and "jazz rock/fusion" for other instrumentalists, check out the big names: charlie parker, john coltrane, sonny rollins, thelonius monk, dizzy gillespie, art tatum, etc. etc.
SHIT! I've been studying JD's recording of Oleo at Yoshi's, and now THIS! What's a hump like me to do? I guess I'll sell the B3 this week and go back to digging ditches.
The guy at second # 2 is ready to sleep or maybe he got a free ticket for this show. There is always a nut ( loco en la cabeza) in every Jazz event! lol
I think alreadywoundpie is right. In Jazz, you have a theoretical cornerstone you can build your free scales on. That is the beauty of freedom in Jazz -improvisation! It would be boring just playin´ c dorian or a c minor pentatonic with some blue notes. Larry Coryell or John Scofield would play an entire different solo and "all would fit" anyway. Individuality and freedom, that´s all, what is Jazz about. Your ear will tell you instantly, when you pick a "wrong" note...
I should add a note to my post--latin isn't the best metaphor, because it's structurally restrictive, whereas the whole point of jazz is toying with structures and doing one's own thing. It's just that theory makes it easier to understand what people before you did so that you can more easily get a "traditional" sound. That's the point of theory for any genre. The people who contribute new ideas aren't relying heavily on theory. As you say, there's only 1 scale--go nuts and see what happens.
I was friends with Pat back in the mid seventies when I took guitar lessons from him. He is an incredible guitar player in addition to being a very humble guy. Truly a legend!
It was a honour ....
What a band!
The album live at Yoshi's with this linup- Joey Defrancesco, organ, Billy Hart, drums and of course Pat Martino on guitar literally changed my life.
In early 1999 I'd been declared terminally ill. I was determined to fight and had a great deal of luck along the way. One was hearing Live at Yoshi's in 2002 when it came out. I determined to change from a rock guitarist to a jazz player. It's been a wonderful journey!
This band is very profound- spiritual even and its performances remain a yardstick to measure my own playing against. Anyone who knows Pat's story knows what a miracle his life is. In his playing here that is perfectly clear.
oldsyphilitic Great story, yours and his (the "Comeback").The young singer Melody Gardot had a somewhat similar transformation, in this case from a very serious bicycle/car accident.
That's a great story of how Pats playing changed your life. I have been a student of Pat Martino for 21years now and he is a father figure for me when it comes to music and knowledge of improvisation and friend of mine. Pat is truly a genius and I'm very fortunate to have been studying guitar with him for 2 decades now.
I don't care for electric guitars, but PAT MARTINO is the exception for me. love his dark sound and those bebop lines kill me!
No one should be allowed to play this good TWICE in their life!
Pat Martino, in my opinion, he was the best Jazz guitarist in history.
The first 3:30 minutes are like a 45 year lesson in jazz guitar.
Yeah! props 4 the bootylicious quote 😄
Pat Martino is one of a kind.
A true genius and the ground layer who set precedence for this exquisite style of Jazz Guitar Mastery! LOVE THE GUY!
They should release this whole show on DVD !!!!! Pat is on !!!!!
Martino's phrases are incredible.. master of the guitar
Fabulous playing here and was a great honor for me to talk to him briefly after a gig.
I saw Pat play in a small club in the seventies, probably when I was still in High School. It may have been at the old Howard Rumsey's Concerts by the Sea, which was at the pier in Redondo Beach CA, or maybe at the Lighthouse jazz club in nearby Hermosa Beach. He was SO GOOD, wish I could see him play live at least one more time.
It's amazing that even after the amnesia incident Pat was able to recover every ounce of his abilities and end up playing even better. Goes to show you are never to old to learn...
Pat Martino, uno de los mejores .
Carolina Muñoz el mejor
Probably the best version of this tune !
Pat's playing's so smooth and the organist is incrediblely skilled
Can this guy fly or what?! Right up there with Wes. This is why jazz is so incredibly awesome and will never be paralleled. Tell me you're not smiling and tapping your feet when you hear this man display his God-given talent!
Pat Martino is The Man!
Pat Martino is the guitar itself.
I so dig Pat Martino's playing for decades! Joey is awesome!
C.G.T. Ukiah,CA
First time I heard him.What a technique! Damn good jazz guitarist. (Emily was right)
Pat Martino’s
“SYMMETRICAL PARENTAL FORMS”
unlock the guitar as only a genius can.
There are only 2: the 3-note Augmented triad (1-3-#5), and the 4-note Dim7 chord (1-b3-b5-bb7).
These both occur naturally on the guitar, as a C major scale and an Eb minor pentatonic scale occur naturally on the piano.
So you take these 2 forms to create other 3-note and 4-note forms.
1) Play 554 on GBE for C+.
Lower any one note by a half-step?
Create 3 major triads (E-Ab-C).
Raise any one note by a half-step?
Create 3 (relative!) minor triads (C#m-Fm-Am).
- So each Aug. “parent” produces 3 major and 3 relative minor triads.
2) Play 4545 on DGBE for a Dim7 chord.
Lower any note by a half-step?
Create 4 Dom7 chords.
Raise any note by a half step?
Create a Half-Dim7 chord.
- So that’s 8 other chords “parented” by that one easy-to-finger Dim7 parent, 4 Dom7 and 4 Half-Dim7.
- There’s more but that’s a start to Martino’s genius.
and always amazed by joey defrancesco
The best jazz-guitarr... player of all time!
This is one of my favorite styles of Jazz. I call it Crazy Jazz. It reminds me of watching a busy city from above, in fast forward.
Pat is one my guitar heros who inspired me to play Jazz ....cheers . Gerard Machado
Very fine drumming !! Fits very well with Pat and Joe's music.
Pat Martino is so hip. He was playing hip shit in the 1960's and still continues to do so. Pat Martino = H.I.P.
I especially like the combination with the Hammond organ .
what a guitarist,and what a beautiful guitar too
Byron Landham has always been such an underrated drummer... Miss hanging out with that cat at Ortliebs in Philly back in the day.
absofuckinglutely brilliant!
Saw him this friday in tilburg holland and they also played this one. Excellent!
Pat is so very smooth. Awesome!!!
The organ and the end are the best bits.
had to listen to that first note twice, hits very nicely !
sou fã do pat martino,sou guitarrista do brasil,sou louco pelo som do jazz dele.
pequena duvida o estilo dele é fusion cara ?
Pat is the G.O.A.T.
Just saw pat tonight...june 1 2010. Looks better than ever, and his hair looks really bad ass...long and thick in the back, not like this...and he played in a white open neck raised color shirt and black vest. He was styling. Best show I've seen him do. Very bluesy, but big and loud, super punchy playing. Spectacular.
a good friend of mine and one of best musicians ever.
His lines just don't end. He could hold a groove for a year and three weeks, come back and still be in the pocket.
a truly Jazz Giant
Since I started listening to Jazz guitar I've learnt where many of my own guitar heroes like Page, Clapton and Hendrix got their licks. And this guy is incredible on the guitar.
Astral Weeks It must be a joke or from an alternate universe where Page, Clapton and Hendrix have a tenth of the talent of Martino.
Astral Weeks Hendrix doesn't just play the blues scale and he is as talented as martino.
contactkeithstack Please tell me what other scales hendrix plays and give a few songs where he plays other scales. Martino know all scales and uses them. Martino could improvise over any song that hendrix ever played the same cannot be said by any honest person about Hendrix. Hendrix was no where close to being as talented as Martino and you response to my questions will prove that.
Astral Weeks Hendrix did also use the pentaontic scale which has less notes in it than the blues scale. What amazing talent.
maxton Your comment is irrelevant to my argument. "Feel" and a knowledge of scale to chord relationships are NOT mutually exclusive. George Benson knows the scales and yet plays with great feel. The difference is that Benson can play over any progression while the same is not true of any of the Guitarists you mentioned.
I am 54 and have been playing guitar since I was 5. I started playing blues because that is what my father played. I think I was 12 when I heard Benson. I can tell you that playing blues/rock was far easier to learn than jazz. I play both with "feel" but as a blues/rock player I was extremely limited.
凄い、すごすぎる...。
あんなに早く、それでいて一切淀みなく弾けるとは。
さすがとしか言いようがないです。
God damn.. these guys are so sick. Pat Martino is a God.
My favourite Jazz guitarist amazing Pat ..play on.....
@dashe60 that's because they are Joey Defrancesco and Byron Landham, they play togheter a LOT :) just heard them with another guitar player in Bern, Switzerland! Was amazing! Keep groovin'
Pat Martino got so good, he prestiged.
Man this is so Freak!! so much more soul even than the shredders! Love this!
Thanks for posting this. I wish we could hear the whole song!
Phrasing is out of this world!
If Pat Martino is this lyrical after brain surgery...imagine what he was like before! George Benson saw him NYC when George was 19 and Pat was 17. George was in awe!
Pat "the Great Martino" .Hyper bien Back Up .Le Pied!!Dieux Existe
El Hombre !
Quality! I still have my old Jazz Chorus Amp
@Manolian
Yea, yea , yea... what he said ... the hippest of the hip,and the coolest of the cool ...
( Me live in Amazon Jungle ... we love Pat martino ... he bad- ass jazz player)
Yup, as Guitfiddlejase said, that's Joey De Francesco, he is also a great trumpet player, he plays "a la" Miles. He appears on many other guitar-organ-drums trios, I highly recommend one with John McLaughlin and Dennis Chambers named "The Free Spirits - Live in Tokyo", and also some of the recordings with Spanish Jazz Guitar player Ximo Tebar.
yeah, it's obviously very beneficial to know beforehand how a given note sounds on top of a given harmony, be it via using only your ear or by having studied theory. No one will sound convincing just playing random notes, you have to actually hear the music in your head before you play. "Only play what you hear. If you don't hear anything, don't play anything. " -Chick Corea
@xoeidi it makes a great difference when musician play together a lot. The synergy is so different. Its funny but I can tell the difference.
great sounds from all!!
so damned refined. so clean. so nice to my ears.
tsss esta lokisimo se la sabe esta pàt martino
Absolutely killin, the ultimate in cool. I cant think of any one else alive other than maybe George Benson that could match something like this.....................not speaking of competing or anything just level of playing.
Helps to to be able to hear what you want to play in your head before you try it on a keyboard or guitar...these guys....man....
splendid Your Majesty .
definitely the best guitarist in the world...
@Guitarslingersoloist He doesn't need to take a breather, he's one powerful diesel locomotive ! That's his trademark..
Damn...this is good music!!
martino is the man...but do you hear the drummer and the organ? they are on a communication quest. They connect big time. Each guy is listening to the other.
This is music!!!
Para Martino os the best ....
I agree the idea is to analyize the modes as separate entities. Frank Gambales Modes nO Mysterey is a great DVD as he creates harmonies you can loop on your recorder and play for hours in all the modes to your own songs really hearing what they are. Minor dorian is redundant and confusing.
Vienna State Opera, right? ... looks like I missed something ... one of my all time favourites
Ebony fretboard and thick nickel rockers GHS strings on my strat and got that Pat's sound but im playing rock -subliminally Pat Martino got the enrgy of a real rocker - he's no bore and no dull moments. in analogy to rock artist his influence and power gives a feel of kurt cobain's energy. Pat Martino # 1
Byron Landham sounds real good on this.
Rest in Peace Pat...
No, it is the Pat Martino signature model Gibson. Pat is now playing a Benedetto signature model.
Joey is the sole reason im watching this - the space is just PERFECT - the lines are soo well spaced and executed - except so spontaneous. FUCK ME.
RIP PAT MARTINO
@Felixxe1 that's Joey DeFrancesco, he's a monster and about the only organist I can think of who can keep up with Pat. Just stellar playing!
My 2nd favorite guitarist next to GB... He's badass
see, the thing is sweeping started with Jazz guitar! you might know this already but for those who don't, one of the most masterful sweepers ever is a guy named Barney Kessel, ferociously badass angular sweeping in service of The Line and not the Lick!! modern sweeper are playing practiced arpeggios over power chord riffs, Jazzers freestyle sweeps in ways that 'shredders' would need to work as hard as anyone else to attain!
For those of you who don't know who the organ player is, HE IS THE GREATEST JAZZ ORGAN PLAYER IN THE WORLD!!! Joey Defrancesco is course!!!!! NONE BETTER! Besides being a fabulous player, Pat is also a really nice and humble guy.
Pat Martino doesn´t leave any spaces
And we have Chumlee from Pawn Stars making a guest appearance on keyboards.
My hero.
@DajaWaja You can play Bb blues if you want over the A's. Its all in how you think of it.
I am 100% sure this is about as good as it gets ever. not to mention there is no one on you tube that has these kind of chops anywhere in regards to playing through changes with that kind of imagination through modes. Buck stops here folks.
awesome stuff here
@z0mgzt0m for guitarists: pat metheny, john mclaughlin, john scofield, george benson, allan holdsworth, frank gambale, al di meola, paco de lucia, shawn lane, morten faerestrand, etc....those are at varying levels of "jazz" and "jazz rock/fusion"
for other instrumentalists, check out the big names: charlie parker, john coltrane, sonny rollins, thelonius monk, dizzy gillespie, art tatum, etc. etc.
This sounds like Jazz !
At its best!
Great drummer!
great !!
SHIT! I've been studying JD's recording of Oleo at Yoshi's, and now THIS! What's a hump like me to do? I guess I'll sell the B3 this week and go back to digging ditches.
The guy at second # 2 is ready to sleep or maybe he got a free ticket for this show. There is always a nut ( loco en la cabeza) in every Jazz event! lol
Go Pat Martino!
The hippest of the Hip,and coolest of the cool.
@Wongywong my brain is melting and running out of my nostrils because of your post. thx
beautiful guitar he is playing
Pat totally diggin on Joey's bass notes on the head! :0)
@zachjal What are you talking about? Scales? This has nothing to do with what i was saying. Blues ''flavor'' can be used whenever you hear it
thats actually very true. i was playing jazz long before i knew theory, i just couldn't tell you what i was doing back then
De la boulettes j'adore 😁
I think alreadywoundpie is right. In Jazz, you have a theoretical cornerstone you can build your free scales on. That is the beauty of freedom in Jazz -improvisation! It would be boring just playin´ c dorian or a c minor pentatonic with some blue notes. Larry Coryell or John Scofield would play an entire different solo and "all would fit" anyway. Individuality and freedom, that´s all, what is Jazz about. Your ear will tell you instantly, when you pick a "wrong" note...
I should add a note to my post--latin isn't the best metaphor, because it's structurally restrictive, whereas the whole point of jazz is toying with structures and doing one's own thing. It's just that theory makes it easier to understand what people before you did so that you can more easily get a "traditional" sound. That's the point of theory for any genre. The people who contribute new ideas aren't relying heavily on theory. As you say, there's only 1 scale--go nuts and see what happens.
Without glasses he is unable to see haha, just kidding! i love pat martino!