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The New John Handy Quintet with Bobby Hutcherson - "New View!" (1967)
#NowPlaying #JohnHandy #BobbyHutcherson #PatMartino #AlbertStinson #DougSides #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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Laid out some MAJOR MONEY (a couple of bucks more than you'd pay for a new LP) for an OOP CD of #PatMartino's Consciousness. His cover of #JoniMitchell's "Both Sides Now" hints towards what he'd do on, "We'll Be Together Again". Lots of straight, hard-bop here, but his cover of Kloss & DePaolo's Consciousness lets you know he's been listening to electric Miles Davis.
All around, one of his finest. #Jazz
Here's AI-upscaled #AlbumArt. There's an uncompressed image here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SK2AmYXSHCdnS7uFguM8WxjVV-Bwo69u/view?usp=drive_link -
Jazz, Guitar, and Neurosurgery: The Pat Martino Case Report
P.A. (P.M. stage name) was born in Philadelphia in 1944 and was first exposed to jazz by his father, who sang and played guitar in local clubs. Having studied briefly with Eddie Lang, a famous jazz guitarist of the time, P.M. started playing guitar when he was 12 years old. He left school at that age to pursue a music career. Before his 18th birthday, he became an icon in the jazz scene, signed as a leading artist for Prestige Records at age 20. His key albums during this period included “Strings!,” “Desperado,” “El Hombre,” and “Baiyina,” one of the first successful jazz ventures in psychedelic music.
This professional guitarist underwent surgery to treat an intracerebral hemorrhage resulting from a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM), requiring a wide left temporal lobectomy. Before surgery, P.M. had a history of epilepsy associated with manic depression but no abnormalities in his musical capabilities. After surgery, he had an almost complete memory loss, showing the expected effect of an extensive injury to the left temporal lobe. He completely lost his musical capabilities including theory, technique, and skills. This paper presents a case report detailing the exceptional history of this musician, who ultimately regained completely his previous virtuoso status. In addition, we present the neuropsychologic tests and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.