Pat Martino

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.

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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

Occupation

guitarist / composer / writer / autobiographer / jazz musician

• Official sitehttps://www.patmartino.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Martino
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31959

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• guitarist
• composer
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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