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Pat Martino

Pat began playing professionally in 1961. He has performed with a wide variety of artists including Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Richard Groove Holmes, John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Chick Corea, Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Stanley Clark, Eric Kloss, Trudy Pitts, Willis Jackson, Lloyd Price, Woody Herman, Chuck Israels, Charles Earland, Barry Miles and Joe Pesci. Since 1967, Pat has been touring as a leader.

He has been a Recording Artist for Vanguard, Prestige, Warner Brothers, Muse, Columbia, King, Paddlewheel, Evidence, Sony, 32 Jazz, High Note, Milestone, Polydor, Concord, Fantasy, House of Blues, Mythos, Mainstream, Cobblestone, Atlantic and, most currently, Blue Note Records.

Pat has given Guitar and Music Therapy Seminars, Clinics and Master Classes throughout the world, at locations including North Texas State University, G.I.T., Berklee College (Boston and Perugia, Italy), Duquesne University, Teatro Rasi (Ravenna, Italy), LeCentre Culturel (D’Athis Mons, France), University of Washington School of Music, Skidmore College, Musicians Institute, National Guitar Workshop, New York University, Pennsylvania University, Stanford University, The University of Missouri, Roosevelt University (Chicago), Patti Summers Jazz Club (Seattle), Music Tech College (St. Paul), The New School (New York City), Southern Illinois University, The Conservatory of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Cork Festival (Cork, Ireland), Washington University (St. Louis, MO), Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Musictech College (St. Paul, MN), Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU (New York, NY), Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (Hartford, CT), and the University of Maryland. Pat is currently on the adjunct faculty at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
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Erivelto S.

11/06/22

Pat a legend!

A great músic, amazing history, incredible point of view, other musician that chance my mind. Your concepts about scales structures, chords chances our way of play. And his incredible history of life is a very inspiring. Each lesson Is amazing and brings a new possibilities for a our musical development, We can achieve many degrees in few minutes.Pat is a legend!

Zak P.

02/03/22

Master

Pat is a giant among giants. Pat's technical ability, feel, and creativity is masterful. His teaching is as equally inspiring as his playing. I highly recommend checking out his courses for anyone interested in the world of jazz or interested in challenging themselves. Pat is as cool as can be and is truly a legend.

breauseph

07/21/21

One of the greats

Of the many advantages of this site, there is probably none greater than the opportunity to learn in-depth from Pat Martino. His book, Linear Expressions is a staple of my learning, and it’s great to see him expand on those ideas in his TrueFire material. It is very advanced, but Martino is always clear and he always elucidates his subject clearly. His holistic approach is also welcome, he recognizes that you don’t just bring knowledge to your instrument but also your life itself.

markelegant

06/10/21

Brilliant guitarist, unique vision

Pat Martino has a unique vision of how to look at the fingerboard and organize jazz harmony. By simplifying chord concepts around a minor6, he can cover a variety of dominant sounds, minor tonalities, minor 7th b5, and Lydian major sounds. While a bit on the esoteric side of communication, his harmonic principles are sound and useful, especially when dealing with the depth of harmonic possaibilites of modern jazz. Pat Martino is clearly a modern master of guitar (and jazz in general), and is worth learning from. And of course hearing and examining his lines is something one can spend ages studying and learing from. While this isnt the most clear presentation, I found the underlying concepts really worth working on after viewing the course (especiially on second viewing). I hope you find this helpful in your own explorations.

aditya2509

10/23/20

Amazing!

As a Music Producer it was very important for me to focus on my guitar playing and develop my own sound. A few months ago I came across Pat Marino's lessons on the Truefire YouTubechannel and I decided to start focusing on Jazz playing eriously to explore. It helped me analyse the song, build different styles of grooves, incorporate different techniques, also opened the door to modern Neo soul sound which was really helpful. The lessons were really easy to follow, precise articulate and most importantly engaging. Hoping to see more lessons on truefire!