Joe Pass - Virtuoso

Artist:

Pass, Joe

UPC:

025218483124

See Also:

Herb Ellis/Pass/Brown/Hanna - Arrival Ella Fitzgerald/Joe Pass - Easy Living

Description:

Solo performer: Joe Pass (guitar).
Recorded at MGM Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California on August 28, 1973. Includes liner notes by Benny Green.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology.
Solo performer: Joe Pass (guitar).
Recorded at MGM Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California on August 28, 1973. Includes liner notes by Benny Green.
Digitally remastered by JVC using XRCD (Extended Resolution Compact Disc) technology.
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

Album Information

Release Date:

04/11/2001

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Guitar

Label:

Fantasy

Catalog Number:

PAB2310708

Original Release Year:

1973

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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