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This is the 7th video instructing the style of Joe Pass within the Jazz Guitar Player's Signature Series. Each jazz guitar lesson in this collection explores the improvisational style of a prominent artist. This is done through a brief transcribed phrase, most likely played over a repeating harmonic cadence (eg. II-V-I).Downloadable pdf music/tab & audio mp3 for this video is offered at the site.
About Joe Pass (Joseph Anthony Passalaqua ): He was born on January 13,1929 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His dad, an Italian steel-worker bought him his first guitar at age 9 and urged him to learn songs and improvise by ear after witnessing the youngster's very early musical tendencies.
After taping numerous albums for the Pacific Jazz and World Pacific labels throughout the 60's, Pass was signed by Norman Granz, the producer of Jazz at the Philharmonic and creator of Verve Records to his brand-new Pablo Records label in 1970. In 1974, Pass released his now traditional solo album Virtuoso. This initial recording along with the whole collection that followed, has redefined the art of solo jazz guitar. As a result of these solo recordings and concerts, Pass finally achieved the prestige he deserved and was regularly detailed in the jazz polls every year. Throughout this exact same duration at Pablo, he taped a set of widely well-known guitar/vocal duet records with Ella Fitzgerald.