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Pat Martino Trio at Musical Instrument Museum
Courtesy of Catie Hahne | Posted on March 29, 2017
Where
Musical Instrument Museum
4725 E. Mayo Boulevard
Phoenix, AZ
Map
480.478.6000
When
Thu, July 6, 2017
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Pat Martino
guitarAbout
One of the greatest guitarists in jazz, Pat Martino, together with his trio, presents an evening of unparalleled jazz virtuosity.
Martino became actively involved with the early rock scene in Philadelphia, alongside stars such as Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, and Bobby Darin. His first road gig was with jazz organist Charles Earland, a high school friend. Martino’s reputation soon spread among other jazz players, and he was recruited by bandleader Lloyd Price to play hits such as “Stagger Lee” onstage with musicians like Slide Hampton and Red Holloway.
Martino moved to Harlem to immerse himself in the “soul jazz” played by Willis “Gatortail” Jackson and others. The organ trio concept had a profound influence on Martino’s rhythmic and harmonic approach and he remained in that idiom as a sideman, gigging with Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. An icon before his eighteenth birthday, Pat was signed as a leader for Prestige Records when he was twenty. His seminal albums from this period include classics like Strings!, Desperado, El Hombre and Baiyina (The Clear Evidence), one of jazz’s first successful ventures into psychedelia....