Interview in Nautilus Magazine
Brain Damage Saved His Music http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/brain-damage-saved-his-music After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back. By Brian Gallagher Illustration by Agata Endo Nowicka January 8, 2015 Five years ago, when neurosurgeon Marcelo Galarza saw images from jazz guitarist Pat Martino’s cerebral MRI, he was astonished. “I couldn’t believe how much of his left temporal lobe had been removed,” he said. Martino had brain surgery in 1980 to remove a tangle of malformed veins and arteries. At the time he was one of the most celebrated guitarists in jazz. Yet few people knew that Martino suffered epileptic seizures, crushing headaches, and depression. Locked in…
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