Product Description

Pat Martino learned how to play superb jazz guitar twice; he emerged as a powerful musical force in the '60s, playing pro at age 15, then had to relearn everything after brain surgery in 1980 caused him to forget how to play. With this book/CD pack, you can learn the trademark riffs, solos and compositions of this remarkable modern jazz guitar virtuoso. Features in-depth explorations of 14 works: All Blues * Along Came Betty * Blue in Green * Nefertiti * Oleo * Road Song * Stone Blue * The Visit * and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95943 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-01
• Released on: 2002-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780634030512
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

This Pat is really a Wolf in a Martino's clothing!!!!!
There are several fantastic features that are not described well in the ad for this book. First of all - all the solos are on the right track while the band is on the left track - so you can turn Pat down and play with his rhythm section. This is a great feature if you want to practice soloing over a great band. Plus I dont think the advertisement made it clear that the notation is in tablature as well as standard.

After reading the forward in this book I slowly came to realize that the guitarist on the accompanying CD is NOT Pat Martino! It took me a while to come around because I couldn't believe anyone could match Pat so precisely - or for that matter - even play those lines so fluidly and powerfully like Pat. The match is so perfect that, when I read the list of musicians in the book I assumed the editor had simply omitted the name "Pat Martino" because it was understood that it was his book. But then my suspicions were aroused when the author/transcriber of the book appeared to be talking in the first person as if it were HE that recorded the CD. How could it be? I then looked up Wolf Marshall's web site and he is billed as the world's greatest guitarist impersonator. OK - I then accepted that it was - in principle - possible for someone to play like Pat.

Finally, I went back to the two recordings to compare to carefully examine how different the two solos were. I managed to synchronize the two recordings playing at the same time with THE REAL PAT playing in the left channel and the IMPOSTER PAT playing in the right channel. The tune I checked was the Road Song and I can attest that Wolf matched Pat - note for note - 99.9% of the time! There were just a few places I noticed slight differences, but most of the time I could not tell that there were two guitars playing - it simply sounded like the same guitar in both channels with different EQs. I have to believe that Wolf must have meticulously patched his solo together - line by line - using many overdubs to get it so perfect. I make this conjecture - not because the solo sounds pieced together - but because I don't believe it is humanly possible to reproduce such a complicated solo so precisely in real time. I don't think even Pat could reproduce his Road Song solo note for note in real time!

To conclude - Had I known that the CD was done by an Pat Martino imposter, I probably would not have purchased since I would not have believed it possible to do it well. But I am now a true believer! The big question in my mind now is: Why hasn't Wolf Marshall put out any of his own CD's? I checked his site and all his products appear to be instructional CD's in the styles of various famous guitarists. Why doesn't Wolf put out a series of new "Pat Martino" albums? How about "Wolf Marshall Records Every Real Book Tune in the Style of Pat Martino"? Could he do it? He obviously has the technique down - but I wonder if he could improvise his own lines in Pat's style... It would be a lot easier than transcribing all the real Pat Martino lines not-for-note! Anyway - many thanks to WOLF MARSHALL for taking the time and energy to create such a loving tribute to Pat Martino.

A must for Martino clones, or any jazz player.
Ok, I just got the book and listened to the tracks. This is the best playing I've heard Wolf Marshall perform. The sound was accurate and the nuances were pretty good. It has to be really difficult to emulate a master like Pat. I thought it was much better than his Wes Montgomery book.

The first thing I noticed being missing was a basic explanation of the way Pat thinks about improvisation. Even if there was a page of so, it would go a long way in helping an aspiring jazz player learn their craft. There were (thankfully) some scalar references amd some notatations at the start of tunes.

However, I do not see it as a "Step By Step Breakdown.... " as in the title.

Everything was easy to read. I didn't much care for tablature, I would have preferred fingering and position markings like in Pat's other work (Linear Expressions). Some of the fingerings do not make sense to someone who studies Pat's way of thinking, and I would be quite surprised if that was actually the way he played those phrases.

Some of the tracks had a head and solo, some just a solo. For us wanna be Martinos out there, I would have strongly preferred the track to be complete. Head, solo, and ending for each song. It would have been OK to leave out other instruments solos.

Regardless, if you are a Pat Martino fan at all, this is a must have! Between the Linear Expressions book and this, you should be able to hard bop with the best of them.

Personally, I don't know how Wolf is going to top this one. I do have a list of tunes if he wants to do Best of Pat Martino Vol 2.

Tab fingers
Yes the tab is very acurate and wolf is a good player , the thing about the actual fingering is Martino is able to slide and crawl across the fretbord sometimes playing 5 notes on a string infact try a chromatic scale 5 notes per string it's a perfect fretboard box. If that is explained in Linear Expressions , it's worth looking in to .