Virtuoso (20 Bit Mastering)

Artist: Joe Pass
Label: Pablo
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218070829
EAN: 0025218070829
ASIN: B000000XIR

Release Date: 2001-05-01

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Tracks:

Night And Day
Stella By Starlight
Here's That Rainy Day
My Old Flame
How High The Moon
Cherokee
Sweet Lorraine
Have You Met Miss Jones?
'Round Midnight
All The Things You Are
Blues For Alican
The Song Is You

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Customer Reviews:

True to the word 'virtuoso'.......2007-03-17

Joe Pass's album was so liked when it came out he went on to record a bunch of sequels. So how does 52 minutes of solo guitar stand up? Joe Pass tackles a program of standards - only "Blues for Alican" is an original. The standards he plays includes some warhorses -- "Night And Day", "Stella By Starlight", "Cherokee", "Have You Met Miss Jones?", and "'Round Midnight". The solo guitar version is sufficiently different enough from, say, Sonny Rollins' "Night And Day", you certainly won't be bored with having another version. The playing itself is a marvel. Pass swings through each song, his notes and clean and perfect, and since he's playing by himself, the differences between solos and verse/choruses are constantly blurred. The main reason I give the CD 4 stars instead of 5 is that the songs themselves blur together a little. "How High The Moon" and "Have You Met Miss Jones?" stand out the most to me, I'm sure everyone has different favorites. Very highly recommended.

A classic. That's all........2006-11-14

You'll be hypnotized by Pass. Nothing but his genius on solo, hollow-body guitar, transforming jazz standards. When this came out in the 70s, it was unusual. Then, everybody started with solo records. Pass was the first, and it stands the test of time.

Real Solo Guitar by the Master.......2006-09-16

Some reviewers apparently don't like unaccompanied guitar. However, to compare this to unaccompanied Miles on trumpet, or unaccompanied Sonny Rollins is a false analogy. No horn can play more than one note at a time, no chords, no bass lines. Only a guitar or a keyboard (or vibes) can do that. It's fair enough to say you don't like the sound of solo guitar. Not everyone likes harpsichord, or sackbut,or theorbo. However, if you do like guitar music this recording is the bible on how to play it "solo". Classical guitar is a different animal. Joe Pass played barely-amplified archtop jazz guitar,and no guitarist I've heard in my life played the "whole guitar" like him, not George VanEps, not Wes Montgomery. What I think is most stunning about his playing is the continous flow of ideas, weaving in and out of chords, single lines, bass, melody, rhythm. As some have pointed out, he had great respect for the melody and overall structure of the American Standard Tunes he played. Even though his substitutions and altered bebop-ish lines were breathtaking, you could still recognize the flow of the tune. There was plenty of speed and chops, but that's not what has moved me since I first heard him 30 years ago. You could tell his playing was largely improvised and every chorus had something new. I heard him play the same tunes many times, live and recorded, and each interpretation was different. He was playing at the speed of thought. More than anyone I've ever heard he sounded as if he could almost instantly transmit a creative idea from his "inner ear" to his fingers. It sounded like it was as easy as breathing. It sounded spectacular. He was the most natural guitarist I've ever heard.

Even a Great Guitarist Needs Some Help on Occasion.......2006-08-18

I am a guitar player. I love to listen to guitar music. However, as you'll read in another of my reviews, I don't inherently love instrumental jazz to begin with.

I thought these standards, while played with great technical virtuosity, would have been more interesting had Pass added some "color" to the tunes by alternating some solos with other instruments such as a piano and sax. Even though I'm a guitar player, I find songs done with a single tonal coloration and singular style to be boring. Imagine Miles Davis doing So What all the way through with only his trumpet...

If you are a devoted jazz lover and/or a devoted lover of instrumental guitar, add a couple of stars. My guitarist friend loves him, but I can pass on Pass.

Simply Virtuoso!.......2006-03-24

Joe Pass' virtuosism as a jazz guitar player far exceeds any expectations you could have. A real guitar virtuoso. The remastering of this classical recording has achieved a real improvement in the sound and it is a pleasure to listen to it. A must-have for any jazz fan or guitar player.

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