Pat Martino

One of the most original guitarists of the post-bop jazz era, Pat Martino was celebrated for his deep harmonic sophistication and distinctively precise picking style, traits that remained hallmarks of his sound even as he overcame brain surgery in 1980 to repair an aneurysm and had to relearn how to play guitar. Following his initial emergence in the '60s alongside organists like Don Patterson and Richard "Groove" Holmes, Martino garnered attention for his own albums, including 1967's El Hombre and 1968's Baiyana (The Clear Evidence). He scored a radio hit with his cover of Bo...