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The Maker (CD)

By: Pat Martino (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Maker (CD) Album By Pat Martino (Artist)
1   Noshufuru
2   You're Welcome To A Prayer
3   Changing Tides, The
4   Yoshiko
5   This Autumn's Ours
 

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Down Beat (8/95, p.42) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...an imaginative album of composed music that's very lyrical, and boppish without the burn..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Pat Martino (guitar); James Ridl (piano); Marc Johnson (bass); Joe Bonadio (drums).

As a precocious young talent from Philadelphia, guitar innovator Pat Martino cut his teeth on the chittlin' circuit with a number of top R&B acts and organ trios. Influenced by Johnny Smith and Wes Montgomery, Martino emerged from the 1960s as a major influence himself, inspiring three generations of guitarists with his fleet, bluesy lines, steely articulation, velvety tone and sophisticated harmonic sensibility.

Following an extended recuperation after a nearly fatal brain tumor, Martino concentrated on his writing and arranging, and THE MAKER celebrates the guitarist's return to the jazz scene with his most ambitious work as a composer since BAIYINA--THE CLEAR EVIDENCE, in 1968. So where his first studio album in almost twenty years (INTERCHANGE, on Muse) was a classic hard bop blowing date, THE MAKER finds Martino in a more pensive mood, crafting thoughtful extended forms full of lush harmonic contrasts.

The free-form rhythmic overture of "Noshufuru" invokes James Ridl's orchestral cycles and Martino's complex melodic counterpoint, before breaking into a swinging release. The tension between these two sections inspires Martino to explore crafty, horn-like phrases, before giving way to Ridl's dynamic orchestral embellishments and open-ended variations from bassist Johnson and drummer Bonadio. On "You're Welcome To A Prayer," Ridl's romantic ruminations bracket Martino's poetic interlude in dark, impressionistic splendor. Likewise, "The Changing Tides" offers a discretely swinging harmonic cycle for Martino to craft his long, elliptical lines, while "Yoshiko" is a tender remembrance, full of yearning melodic details. THE MAKER reveals another aspect of Pat Martino, one that lies in considered contrast to the feverish intensity usually associated with his work: a promise of more ambitious, varied recitals.

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