Oleo – Pat Martino Organ Trio

This is a very sick cover of oleo, and is probably one of my all-time favorite performances of a rhythm changes.  The intro has a really cool guitar motif.  The head has a really cool bass pedal from the organ, not sure what it is or how it functions but it sounds very hip.  There’s very good phrasing from all of the solos, especially the effective use of space in the organ solo.  The use of space is especially prominent about 4 minutes in of part 1. Throughout the organ solo, energy is continually changed by the drummer.  The drum solo has lots of space too in part 2 of the video.