| Joyous Lake | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Pat Martino |
| Cover: | Joyous Lake.jpg |
| Released: | 1977 |
| Recorded: | September 1976 Criteria Recording Studio, Miami, Florida |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 41:30 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. BS 2977 |
| Producer: | Paul A. Rothchild |
| Chronology: | Pat Martino |
| Prev Title: | We'll Be Together Again |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Exit |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
Joyous Lake is an album by guitarist Pat Martino, recorded in 1976 and released on the Warner Bros. label.[1]
The AllMusic site rated the album with 3 stars.[2]
In an article for All About Jazz, Ian Patterson wrote: "The group interplay is tight and the soloing exhilarating, with Martino in exceptional, bebop-inspired form. Yet there is a melodicism within these grooves that seems to foreshadow the Pat Metheny Group... the record has stood the test of time, and for jazz-fusion fans anyway, it ranks as one of Martino's best."[3]
All About Jazzs John Kelman remarked: "for those who enjoy their fusion with a stronger tie to the tradition, even as its grooves and colors are irrefutably electric and in their energy, electrified, Joyous Lake remains an undervalued gem in Martino's discography, and one that absolutely merits rediscovery."[4]
Jim Campilongo, writing for Guitar Player, praised the album's "athletic impassioned playing, almost impossible unison lines, and yes, one could use the F word – fusion – to describe it accurately." He stated that Martino's "artistry is captured in spades on Joyous Lake."[5]
All compositions by Pat Martino except as indicated