For the Israeli television drama series, see Fire Dance (TV series)
17-455: Fire Dance is an album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino , flutist Peter Block, sitar player Ustad Habib Khan, violinist Ilya Rayzman and tabla player Zakir Hussain . It was released in 1997 by Mythos Records. The project was conceived by Block and Khan, who contacted Martino after hearing his work on the albums Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) and The Maker . Martino recalled: "I've always enjoyed studying different kinds of music, and there are
34-434: A chronic respiratory disorder, he stopped performing in 2018. He died on November 1, 2021, at the age of 77. With Eric Alexander With Willis Jackson With Eric Kloss With Jack McDuff With Charles McPherson With Don Patterson With Trudy Pitts With others Down Beat DownBeat (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to " jazz , blues and beyond",
51-456: A hemorrhaged arteriovenous malformation that caused a "near-fatal seizure". The resulting surgery, which removed part of his brain, left him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of his career or how to play the instrument that made him successful. He said he came out of surgery with complete forgetfulness, and had to learn to focus on the present rather than the past or the possible future. He had to completely re-learn how to play. He
68-417: A lesser extent, he was influenced by the guitar stylings of Jim Hall, Mundell Lowe and Barry Galbraith. Martino said, "There are elements within an instrument’s architecture that initiate a continuous source of valuable information. For the guitar, there are two. The first is the major third interval, and the second is the minor third interval. Once we view their repetitive information, they begin to appear as
85-449: A musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system. DownBeat was established in 1934 in Chicago , Illinois. In September 1939, the magazine announced that its circulation had increased from "a few hundred five years ago to more than 80,000 copies a month", and that it would change from monthly to fortnightly from
102-412: A number of areas that I've rarely had the opportunity to enjoy in public performance. A good example is the recording project 'Fire Dance'. Its topic was based upon Indian ragas. The last time I enjoyed something similar to it was recorded 30 years prior on one of my earlier albums; 'Baiyina'. In both cases neither of these were performed publicly." In a review for AllMusic , Robert Taylor wrote: "Martino
119-417: A series of automatic functions." Martino's lines contain chromatic links outside any particular IIm7 chord that might be conceptualized over a chord progression, even in the examples he provides in his books and instructional videos. On his bulletin board he has stated that he formulated the system more as a way to explain his playing rather than as something to use to create music. In his own words, "Although
136-676: A suite in the President Hotel on 48th Street . He played at Smalls for six months of the year, and played summers at the Club Harlem in Atlantic City, New Jersey . Martino played and recorded early in his career with Lloyd Price, Willis Jackson , and Eric Kloss . He also worked with jazz organists Charles Earland , Richard "Groove" Holmes , Jack McDuff , Don Patterson , Trudy Pitts , Jimmy Smith , Gene Ludwig , Ray Allen (Raymond Chenot) and Joey DeFrancesco . In 1980, Martino suffered
153-545: Is based on a traditional folk melody. Remaining tracks composed by Habib Khan and Peter Block. Pat Martino Pat Martino (born Patrick Carmen Azzara ; August 25, 1944 – November 1, 2021) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. He has been cited as one of the greatest guitarists in jazz. Martino was born Patrick Carmen Azzara in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States, to father Carmen "Mickey" Azzara (d. 1990) and mother Jean (née Orlando, d. 1989). He
170-415: Is mostly relegated to a sideman/group member role, but he is given plenty of space. While Block, Khan, tabla player Zakir Hussain, and violinist Ilya Rayzman sound perfectly at home here, Martino doesn't always sound comfortable... the session as a whole is very rewarding... this recording proved that he was not content to stay within any sort of comfort zone." Writing for Jazz Times , Josef Woodard called
187-489: The album an "intriguing east-meeting-west project" that allows the musicians to "cross freely over cultural boundaries," and commented: "Martino... provides the greatest excitement here, partly because of the unorthodoxy of the electric guitar in this setting, and partly because he burns, pure and simple. He serves a clean-but-ferocious style that is inimitably his own, and yet which adapts itself to other modes of musical thinking." "Zeeshan" composed by Habib Khan. "Sacred River"
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#1733085283267204-496: The analysis of some of my recorded solos have been referred to as modal, personally I've never operated in that way. I've always depended upon my own melodic instinct, instead of scale-like formulas." Jazz music educator Wolf Marshall said Martino is "a living legend, a national treasure, and an inspiration to musicians and music lovers of all stripes". Martino was married to Ayako Asahi Martino; they met in Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Due to
221-642: The following month. In Summer 1960 DownBeat launched the Japanese edition. In 1972 the publisher of the magazine was Maher Publishers. Starting in July 1979, DownBeat went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939. DownBeat was named Jazz Publication of the Year in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 by the Jazz Journalists Association . The DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame's current membership, by year,
238-451: The last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm that it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago , Illinois . It is named after the " downbeat " in music, also called "beat one", or the first beat of a musical measure. DownBeat publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame includes winners from both
255-745: The readers' and critics' poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue. Since 2008, the Hall of Fame also includes winners from the Veterans Committee. Popular features of DownBeat magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in which
272-481: Was first exposed to jazz by his father, who sang in local clubs and briefly studied guitar. Martino studied with renowned jazz teacher Dennis Sandole , and in his studio met other of Sandole's students; among them, John Coltrane , James Moody , McCoy Tyner and others. Martino began playing professionally at the age of 15 after moving to New York City. He lived for a period with Les Paul and began playing at jazz clubs such as Smalls Paradise . He later moved into
289-576: Was subsequently chosen as Guitar Player of the Year in the Down Beat magazine Readers' Poll of 2004. In 2006, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued his album East! on Ultradisc UHR SACD . In 2017, he created a series of educational videos, A Study of the Opposites and How They Manifest on the Guitar . Martino's influences were Les Paul, Johnny Smith, Hank Garland, Joe Pass, and especially Wes Montgomery. To
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