My Take
Pat Martino is one of those guitarists who makes you rethink what the instrument is even capable of — a Philadelphia kid who was playing professionally as a teenager and went on to develop one of the most harmonically sophisticated voices in jazz. What makes his story genuinely extraordinary, though, is the comeback: in the early 1980s he suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm and had to relearn music essentially from scratch, listening to his own old recordings like a student. The fact that he not only returned but kept recording and touring well into his seventies says everything about how deep the music lived in him. He passed away in November 2021, and the jazz world lost a true original — someone whose tone was immediately recognizable and whose intelligence on the fretboard never felt showy, just quietly unstoppable.
Overview
Pat Martino (born Patrick Carmen Azzara; August 25, 1944 – November 1, 2021) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pat Martino
- Name (Japanese)
- パット・マルティーノ
- Reading
- ぱっと・まるてぃーの
- Born
- August 25, 1944 – November 1, 2021
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- guitarist / composer / writer / autobiographer / jazz musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.