Pat Martino Quintet
unknown venue
San Francisco, CA
1975-12-xx

Pat Martino - guitar
Bob Hammond-sax, flute
Gil Goldstein - keyboards
Jeff Berlin - bass
Anton Fig - drums

Source- cdr trade of fine quality show recorded in unknown way on unknown equiptment > EAC Rip to FLAC> Audacity for splitting tracks> TLH for torrent creation> DIME

01) unknown
02) unknown
03) unknown
04) City Lights
05) unknown
06) Starbright
07) Pat speaks
08) The Great Stream pt.1
09) The Great Stream pt.2
10) unknown
11) unknown
12) unknown

Very mysterious and worthwhile show seeded at this time to mark the passing of the GREAT Pat Martino.
Mysterious, because it came to me with the very sketchy date and location info above. I got it in a cd-r trade long ago, and it came over to me as 2 discs with one very long track on each of them. I've split those tracks in Audacity, and you might want to know that tracks 1-8 were on the first cd totalling about 45 minutes. 9-12 were on the 2nd cd totalling nearly an hour. Track 1 is very short and joins a performance that's nearly over. That track and the 2nd one kind of made me wonder whether the disc was labelled correctly, but then track 3 instantly eliminated any of those doubts. This is Pat Martino in his mid 70's heyday. Track 8 is the first few minutes of The Great Stream, and it ended the first cd-r. The 2nd disc began with the remainder of that tune. If anyone has the skills or desire to re-join those 2 sections of music, please do, and share it with the rest of us.
Some may think that I've mistakenly upped the Keystone Korner Joyous Lake show, but this is not that, and the personnel here is solidly identified by Pat as the people I've written above. Not sure about the date or location, but it's the musicians listed and they're playing a few things that would appear on Pat's first Warner's album, Starbright, but they're also going back to Pat's Muse catalog. I believe Pat only ever recorded with Gil Goldstein out of the players on the bandstand with him here. That was on the duo disc We'll be Together Again, Starbright, and Exit. They were all in the 1976-77 timeframe. Sorry I couldn't do a better job identifying the unknown tunes. If you can help with any of them, please chime in below in the comments section.
Worthwhile, because it's a very good recording. It seems like it's an audience, because you can definitely hear a conversation going on in a few quieter places, but the instruments are very clear and well recorded. Anyone hearing Pat for the first time will clearly find out what "the fuss" was all about. His playing here is wonderful and clear. It's certainly not a recording that came from an old built in condenser on a portable cassette machine.
Finally, I saw Pat on a double bill with with Dave Liebman's Lookout Farm at the Bottom Line in NYC in April of 1975. His band included both Jeff Berlin and Gil Goldstein at that show. I can't recall who the drummer was, or if there was a reed player. What I saw at the Bottom Line makes this show's 1975 date seem likely.
If you're a Pat Martino fan, I'd definitely encourage you to grab this, and remind yourself again of what an awesome player this guy was (and became again).
Thanks to the trader who made this available to me long ago, to whoever recorded this in the first place, and RIP Pat Martino.