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Love at Yoshi's
Pat Martino
Love at Yoshi's
Genre: Jazz
 
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That Pat Martino's new Live at Yoshi's is a stunning display of jazz-guitar prowess should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the six-string legend. That the disc is one of those lucky live albums that captures a ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Pat Martino
Title: Love at Yoshi's
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI/Blue Note
Release Date: 5/30/2001
Album Type: Import
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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That Pat Martino's new Live at Yoshi's is a stunning display of jazz-guitar prowess should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the six-string legend. That the disc is one of those lucky live albums that captures a night when everything seemed to be falling into place for Martino and his trio of organist Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Billy Hart is perhaps more than even the guitarist's most ardent admirers could have hoped for. DeFrancesco and Hart are both predictably awe-inspiring, but it's the telepathic chemistry between the three band members and the understandably thrilled audience that really blasts Live at Yoshi's into a higher realm of live jazz albums. The trio's interplay on the laid-back version of "All Blues" seems to reach a new peak with each chorus, culminating in Martino's beautiful closing unaccompanied cadenza, and the guitarist and DeFrancesco seem to inspire each other to ever greater heights on the ballad "Welcome to a Prayer." Those enamored of Martino's fleet-fingered heroics will have plenty to feast on here--from the breakneck tempo of the opening "Oleo" to the hard-swinging "El Hombre," Martino and DeFrancesco trade lines with an assurance that few musicians can muster. Martino has one of the more inspirational personal stories in music. A guitar legend in the '70s, he had to completely relearn the instrument after a near-fatal brain aneurysm in 1980--and he can now lay claim to one of the more inspirational live albums released in years. --Ezra Gale

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STEF FROM ITALY IS AN IDIOT
walt | US | 11/25/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Personally, I think Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino are both fabulous. To compare them is silly and irrelevant. They are both stupendous musicians. Both have great time, great ideas etc. What's really annoying is idiots like Stef, (see review below). I can't even remember the exact wording of his stupid review, but I seem to recall him typing something like Pat Martino will never fill Wes Montogmery's shoes, and sorry Pat you don't compare (whatever) They both deserve credit for being great players.

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