This title is manufactured “on demand” when ordered from Amazon.com, using recordable media as authorized by the rights holder. Powered by CreateSpace, this on-demand program makes thousands of titles available that were previously unavailable. For reissued products, packaging may differ from original artwork. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.Few musicians in any genre or on any instrument can boast guitarist Pat Martino’s combination of supple, fast mobility and rich, tight control. In the 1960s, Martino earned his chops playing in a number of organ combos with Jack McDuff, Richard “Groove” Holmes, and Jimmy Smith, so the overall concept of hard-hitting, funky music has been familiar to the guitarist for decades. On Stone Blue, he pushes the concept with his usually rotund sound and lightspeed dexterity, drawing off James Genus’s sinuous electric bass and Eric Alexander’s ultra-tight tenor saxophone execution. Martino takes many of the tunes off into the realm of jazz fusion circa mid-1970s, thanks in part to the keyboards of Delmar Brown. The music is always explorative, tossing together the group’s funky collective feel and Martino’s tense lines, where he runs parallel phrases at astonishing paces, and then lets his guitar sing in the background while his accompanists blast off funky solos. A rare longtimer in jazz, Martino shows stone cold genius on Stone Blue. –Andrew Bartlett
Stone Blue
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Classic ++ I like Pat Martino a lot but I can’t say I’m a “fan” in the sense of knowing a lot of what he’s done. I bought this CD after hearing him live, just to hear him some more. This CD has become one of my top favorite jazz CDs – every song in it sounds somehow “familiar”, it’s as if each song plays a kind of jazz style that I’ve heard before, but then performs it in such a way that it somehow sounds like a total classic but better, as if that classic were being unwoven before me fresh and new.I don’t have many CDs where each and every song is a joy to listen to, where I have to hear the CD once again each time because I just want more. This is certainly one of them, and it’s right at the top. Pat Martino’s playing is fabulous, honest, interesting, clean, involving, just perfect – but then all the other band members are excellent too. This is a great CD.
Worthy Blue Note Martino If you are a Martino fan, old school or after his return this is a fine pice of post bop to own. It is an accessible album and also one for those who like the idea of listening to midnight jazz on the hot, steaming streets of L.A. Certainly surpasses other recent offerings such as Nightwings. However, if you are a true Martino fan then this is an essential part of the jigsaw anyway.Mithra Blue