On Roots (Cont)

 Watched a performance of Pat Martino who just died last week. It was a duet with a piano player on a standard. A friend commented that he didn't think that it was substantive--he was just playing scales and it didn't seem to have any form at all. I made the counterargument that younger metal players just play fast arpeggios. It's not compositional. But he argued that it is compositional and