Webber Guitars

09/08/2026

The very way I felt meeting Pat at Jazz Alley (Seattle).

09/08/2026

Mestre Pat Metheny!

Pat Metheny had been playing guitar professionally around Kansas City since he was fifteen. By the time University of Miami professor Dean Bill Lee heard him playing in a club and offered him a full scholarship, Metheny was already, in practical terms, a working musician.

He lasted less than two weeks as a student.

"I realised that playing guitar all day during my teens had left me completely unprepared for classes," he later recalled. He went to Lee and explained that he was going to drop out.

Instead of trying to persuade him to stay, Lee offered him a job teaching. The university had just introduced electric guitar as a course of study and needed someone to lead it.

Metheny was just eighteen years old.

A year later, vibraphonist Gary Burton recruited him to Berklee College of Music, where, at nineteen, he again became the school's youngest faculty member.

Burton soon invited him to join his band. Metheny later described those three years as "by far the most important period of my life, musically" — the experience that transformed him from "a talented kind of semi-pro-level improviser" into someone who could "pretty much hang with world-class guys."

The rest is jazz history.

Twenty-three years later, Berklee awarded him an honorary doctorate — the same institution that had hired him as a teenager recognising one of the most influential guitarists of the modern era.

[📸 Dorota Koperska Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

09/08/2026

My personal No. 1, the late, great Pat Martino. I have the good fortune to be personally introduced to him via my fellow Seattle Jazz guitarist, Milo Petersen. We chatted about his release All Sides Now, that duet with Cassandra Wilson on the Joni Mitchell tune Both Side Now, and also the Mike Stern duet. We also talked about his friend and idol, Les Paul, who also guested on another track on that release. He gave me his business card and told me to look him up if I were ever in Philadelphia. Sadly, that day never came, but I happily have attended one of his master class clinics and was able to keep up with his most advanced principles of music. Pat was a mensch. 🥀

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

Webber Roundbody

08/18/2026

This is an important take on AI, and I agree with this stance.

The Recording Academy just published a panel discussion from a "Grammys on the Hill" event where CEO Harvey Mason Jr. repeated his favorite talking points regarding generative AI music. How did we get here?

07/06/2026

Webber Guitars OM (Brasilian Rosewood)

* No longer available, but I just had to post this beauty.
* A personal dream spec of mine, however, I would much prefer Webber-branded Gotoh tuners with ebony buttons for better aesthetics.

— Michael Martinez, Webber Guitars Group Administrator

07/06/2026

Webber Roundbody (2003)

Engelmann spruce top, East Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, rosewood binding with triple purflings, ebony fretboard and bridge w/ebony pins, bone nut and saddle, clear pick guard, custom Gotoh tuners with ebony buttons, strap button installed at neck heel, ebony endpin, 25-1/2" scale length, 1-3/4" nut width.

06/21/2026

Mestres Cesar and Romero! You're welcome.
I had the good fortune to see and meet Romero twice in Seattle at Jazz Alley. He is amazing goodly, and also a lovely chap. I recommend this DVD and CD.

DUO - Cesar Camargo Mariano & Romero Lubambo interpretando "Curumim...