Virtuoso

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 52:32

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Magical moods from Joe Pass

JP_near_Louisville

Virtuoso is the right title for this album. Nobody beats Pass for solo renditions of these classic jazz pieces. This is the master at the peak of performance. Great stuff!

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Magical moods from Joe Pass

JP_near_Louisville

Virtuoso is the right title for this album. Nobody beats Pass for solo renditions of these classic jazz pieces. This is the master at the peak of performance. Great stuff!

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Absolute Jazz Guitar Classic

RichBS

The guy sounds like a whole jazz band on on one guitar. Lead, chords and bass. MUST HEAR!

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Virtuoso

IowaJazz

Amazing. That 'bout covers it.

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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

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