Virtuoso Joe Pass

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  • Release Date: 05/01/2001
  • Original Release: 1973
  • Sales Rank: 44,750
  • Label: PABLO
  • UPC: 025218483124

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Virtuoso

1LISTENNight and Day 3:34
2LISTENStella by Starlight 5:10
3LISTENHere's That Rainy Day 3:36
4LISTENMy Old Flame 5:17
5LISTENHow High the Moon 4:59
6LISTENCherokee 3:38
7LISTENSweet Lorraine 4:09
8LISTENHave You Met Miss Jones? 4:44
9LISTEN'Round Midnight 3:38
10LISTENAll the Things You Are 4:00
11LISTENBlues for Alican 5:28
12LISTENThe Song Is You 4:33

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This is the album that made Joe Pass famous. On what was actually his second set of unaccompanied guitar solos (Virtuoso No. 4 from a month earlier was released years later), Pass shows that it is possible to play unaccompanied versions of such up-tempo tunes as "How High the Moon," "Cherokee," and "The Song Is You" on guitar. Pass not only performs the melodies and heated solos, but provides basslines and harmonies while using a conventional technique (unlike Stanley Jordan's later tapping). Pass would record many unaccompanied recordings and perform at numerous solo concerts during the next 20 years; this is the set that started it all, and it is a certified classic. An essential CD. Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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October 20, 2000: Martin Taylor, Tuck Andress, and Steven King (not the author) are three of the living jazz fingerstylists of our time. Their solo efforts fall within the genre in jazz guitar spurred by the late great master Joe Pass. This album, and the 2-CD Virtuoso #4, were all recorded in 3-days of November 16, 26, and 30 1973. Yet the recordings from those sessions remain to be definite, groundbreaking and will always serve as a benchmark for the solo jazz guitar genre. The guitar playing in this album is spontaneous and unpredictable, yet the harmonic sense can only come from someone who is very fluent in the jazz idiom. Each cut is a gem. The classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk loves this guru. Joe Pass is a genius.

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