“Sunny”
Written by Bobby Hebb
GIL PARRIS: Guitar
PAT BIANCHI: Organ
JIMMY HASLIP: Bass
GERRY GIBBS: Drums
Producer: Tom Emmi
Audio Engineers: Marshall Woodall, Bill Schnee
Mastering Engineer: Sunny Nam
Video Editors: Matt Mayers, Adam Henderson
The life of guitar virtuoso Pat Martino can be told in two chapters. Before 1980, he was a prodigy, who quit school at age 15, moved from Philadelphia to Harlem and became a prodigious session player. At 22, he recorded a landmark debut album. Then, at age 35, after suffering seizures, he experienced a brain aneurism and couldn’t remember his own name. This was chapter two. Over the next two decades, Martino would work to recover his speech and memory and remaster his instrument, reaching new levels of musical artistry and acclaim before finally succumbing to respiratory disease in November 2021. Pat Martino. No one ever worked harder to make music sound so effortless.