Pat martino autobiography

This extraordinarily revealing autobiography is also a survival manual, of sorts, in overcoming incredible adversity and learning to live in the here and now.
By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R & B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue.
The remarkable story of his catastrophic brain injury and his slow but complete comeback, against the odds.

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Videos

The Nature of Guitar

by Pat Martino

Pat's video 'The Nature of Guitar' is available through True Fire.

    The Open Road (Documentary)
    Live at Ethel's Place (Performance)

        Available from: Phil Fallo Productions

    Creative Force, Parts 1 & 2 (Instructional)
    Quantum Guitar: Analysis of a Tune & Advanced Concepts (Instructional)

        From REH Videos; also available as books from CMP Publishing.

Books

Here and Now!

by Pat Martino and Bill Milkowski.

Now available! Pat Martino's autobiography 'Here And Now', published by Backbeat Books. This collaboration between Pat Martino and Bill Milkowski (the author of 'Jaco') covers a wide range of Pat's personal experiences and perspectives. It includes extensive interviews with quite a number of major guitarists, as well as photographs and graphics. This book will be a valuable addition to any music library!

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Biography

When the anesthesia wore off, Pat Martino looked up hazily at his parents and his doctors. and tried to piece together any memory of his life.

One of the greatest guitarists in jazz, Martino had suffered a severe brain aneurysm and underwent surgery after being told that his condition could be terminal. After his operations he could remember almost nothing. He barely recognized his parents. and had no memory of his guitar or his career. He remembers feeling as if he had been "dropped cold, empty, neutral, cleansed, ... naked."

In the following months. Martino made a remarkable recovery. Through intensive study of his own historic recordings, and with the help of computer technology, Pat managed to reverse his memory loss and return to form on his instrument. His past recordings eventually became "an old friend, a spiritual experience which remained beautiful and honest." This recovery fits in perfectly with Pat's illustrious personal history. Since playing his first notes while still in his pre-teenage years, Martino has been recognized as one of the most exci

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Denver Journal

A Denver Journal Review by Denver Seminary Professor Douglas Groothuis

Pat Martino with Bill Milkowski, Here and Now: The Autobiography of Pat Martino. Monclair, NJ: Backbeat Books, 2011. 192 pages. ISBN-10: 1617130273; ISBN-13: 978-1617130274. Hardback.

Autobiographies of jazz musicians are often a bit difficult to bring about in a suitable literary form. This is simply because most jazz musicians are gifted in the language of music, but not necessarily in written language. Some, like John Coltrane, are quite laconic (although one can read Coltrane on Coltrane, culled from interviews). Others, like Duke Ellington, were oratorically nimble and mellifluous in speaking (listen to his dazzling spoken introduction to “Afro-Eurasian Eclipse” on the recording of the same name), but a bit idiosyncratic (if not factually errant) in writing. Ellington’s autobiography, Music is My Mistress is wonderfully entertaining, but not the most thorough or literate account of the maestro’s life and music. (For that, see