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Post by shadow on Nov 2, 2021 5:06:02 GMT -6
Internationally beloved jazz guitarist Pat Martino has passed away at the age of 77. The news was confirmed by Martino’s longtime manager, Joe Donofrio.
Martino’s story is almost as impressive as his virtuosic playing. He began playing professionally at the age of 15, and eventually emerged as one of the great jazz-based guitarists of the 1960s. He was forced to make a remarkable comeback after brain surgery in 1980 to correct an aneurysm that caused him to lose his memory and completely forget how to play.
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Post by teejay on Nov 4, 2021 6:42:10 GMT -6
I was astonished to read this fuller account of his difficulties in Wikipedia.
Martino had been performing until a haemorrhaged arteriovenous malformation caused a "near-fatal seizure" in 1980. This left him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of his career or how to play the very instrument that made him successful. Martino says he came out of surgery with complete forgetfulness, learning to focus on the present instead of the past or what may lie ahead. He was forced to learn how to play the guitar from zero.
It took him 10 years to get back to where he was before.
This week also saw the death of American guitarist Emmett Chapman, the inventor of the "Chapman Stick".
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