Pat Martino was a jazz legend, an energetic, dynamic and virtuoso performer with a style that embodied the best traditional elements of jazz, but with an approach that sounded fresh and uniquely his own.
Pat’s recording career began in Philadelphia in the early ’60s, both as a sideman to artists such as Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith, but also with a string of successful recordings as a bandleader in his own right. Tragically, in 1980 he suffered a near fatal brain aneurism, which left him with complete amnesia.
A remarkable display of determination and the power of human recovery saw
