We Remember Joe Pass. ‘Virtuoso Joe’

This day (May 23, 1994), in Los Angeles, California, died Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua a.k.a Joe Pass, an Italian-American jazz guitarist.

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Tracklist :

1 . & Roy Clark – Jambalaya (1993)

2 . Summertime (1992)

3 . & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen – Tricostin (1990)

4 . & Oscar Peterson Quartet – Cakewalk (1987)

5 . Joe’s Blues (1984)

6 . & Ella Fitzgerald – Georgia On My Mind (1983)

7 . Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me (1976)

8 . & Ella Fitzgerald – Cry me a river (1975)

9 . Joe Pass – (1961)

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Tracklist :

A Time For Us . Night And Day . Autumn Leaves . Here’s That Rainy Day . ‘Round Midnight . Stella By Starlight . Django . All The Things You Are . How High The Moon . My Old Flame .

SELECTED ALBUMS

Joe Pass‘ Sounds of Synanon is an album (and his debut on vinyl) recorded with other patients of the Synanon drug rehabilitation program where he was treated and released on July 1, 1962. >>

Recorded on August 28, 1973, Take Love Easy is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Joe Pass. >>

Recorded on August 28, 1973, Virtuoso is an album by Joe Pass. >>

MORE VIDEOS

[1975] Joe Pass performs solo at Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland >> 18 MINUTES on RVM >>

[1992] Italian-American guitarist Joe Pass plays with Danish double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen at the Opera House in Kiel, Germany >> 59 MINUTES on RVM >>

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Wikipedia : This day (May 23, 1994), in Los Angeles, California, died Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua a.k.a Joe Pass, an Italian-American jazz guitarist.

@allmusic : Joe Pass was able to play up-tempo versions of bop tunes such as Cherokee and How High the Moon unaccompanied on the guitar. Unlike Stanley Jordan, Pass used conventional (but superb) technique, and his Virtuoso series on Pablo still sounds remarkable decades later.

@last.fm : Joe Pass was a virtuoso jazz guitarist. One of the greatest solo jazz artists of all time, Joe Pass also ranks as one of the great guitarists not only for his knowledge of the instrument and technical prowess, but also his compositional and improvisational skills.

@Discogs : In the 1970s he recorded the first of several solo performances in which he adopted a fingerstyle approach to playing rather than using a plectrum. As well as leading his own groups, he recorded with many of the great names of jazz, including Count Basie, Benny Carter, Zoot Sims, Milt Jackson, Duke Ellington and, notably, four classic albums with Ella Fitzgerald.

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