JOE PASS "JOE'S BLUES" (1984)

[Hamporkcheese]

The Boss

[Citoyen0708]

is it jazz or blues ?

[Hamporkcheese]

@Citoyen0708 a grossly awsome combination of both

[Rainbow8218]

@Citoyen0708

both

[raphegross]

My Jazz Guitar God, if only George Benson would have kept his mouth shut and just played, he could have hit these cords. We miss you Joe.

[mrrusss]

I'm clicking dislike because I mainly like power chords.

[MsMarc1234]

@mrrusss LOL

[mkehandgrenades]

goddamn how do you get this good.... RIP joe

[InsanitariumMetal]

Joe Pass is definetly a guitar god

[PeanutXGORE]

no human can be genius as this man.

my fav jazz guitarist.

[MrKetfo]

Quality. 

[TheMedicMac]

An incredible master of his instrument.

[Stevemcsteve]

Joe Pass....the only musician that was able to bring me to tears with just his guitar playing.

[freeman2545]

cant hum this in the shower....

[Testacabeza]

@freeman2545 Joe did!

[bungaciput]

Great guitar impro..... nice!

[saron380]

at the beginin you can just tell where the chord changes were, just by the way he was PHRASING his runs! The man was good

[LordSauceness]

Every time I think I know what a great guitar player sounds like, I always come back to the incredible Joe Pass to see how it's really done. Without a doubt, a genius guitar player. Always will be my favorite!

[RodrigoCFD]

Holy shit, I must grow up a moustache immediately.

[hoopsencyclopedia]

@RodrigoCFD And grow bald!

[Eva413]

O you fancy huh?

[cultfictioners]

Joe pass is my greatest inspiration for playing jazz guitar. I just love his fluid phrasing and playing, his walking basslines and his use of counterpoint and harmonies.

[rabgiamadeus]

just got into jazz recently...personally i would consider myself lucky for finding and enjoying music like this...it's a shame that not so many people from my generation have even heard about him,let alone listen to jazz...but then again some great things aren't ment for everyone's ear...

[AsDaSd3339]

@rabgiamadeus a lot of people dont listen to good music with "open-ears", they are convinced that some music is for old and bored people and most popular music is for cool and young people, so when they listen to it they think its bad or bored. I have the same feeling with tango, my faouvorite kind of music

[viarnay]

the adventages of fingerpicking :-)

[TheMullerFan]

1:55 kills me everytime

[TheMullerFan]

Fuck me sideways. JP is the man

[FunkySkunk90]

How great is this man ? His gentle sound and the huge melodic and harmonic knowledge of his guitar make him my favourite Jazz gutarist. (I know there is a Wes Montgomery)

[popmccoy]

Fantastic, great to watch and learn from a great man.

[filmcrew1551]

would love to see the rest of that interview at the end

[octavianAgustus]

Such Brilliant improvisation Truly this man is one of the greatest jazz guitarist

[pedrohgromero1]

king of walking bass

[tgtrmn1]

Reminds me of how bad I play.

[anfjell]

joe pass! lives on forever in heart! RIP

[orlandoCF1]

Thats a great sounding guitar Joes playing. I havent seen one of those Ibanez's yet. It seems to be a better instrument than the Epi Joe Pass guitar. Nothing against Epiphone, just comparing the two instruments.

[Guitfiddlejase]

@orlandoCF1 Yeah-it's an Ibanez JP 20 They made very few back then...

[goatman257]

1:00 - 1:05 - badass!

[happyface4444]

god must be happy with all the great music going on in heaven right now.

[nikolozjazz]

ibanez! always wanted to see the video where he plays on ibanez. video must be from somewhere between 80-90. that's when he was under contract with ibanez and they say that he didn't really like its sound.......

[TadRapidly]

guitar is so fuckin hard i hate it. Give me another life and I'm buying a flugelhorn and that's it! ;-)

[eyehatepop]

MESMERIZING

[jeffsReed]

Joe was the best of his time along with Wes. It is told that Wes' favorite was Joe and Joes's favorite was Wes. Joe learned to improvise by first learning the melodies then his dad made him solo around them. He learned his lessons well and shook his addiction. He wasn't very articulate but when he played his eyes would roll back in the sockets and he would speak like nobody else could. Saw him once at howard roberts' guitar seminar and shook afterwards. I never dreamed anyone was that good!

[ben6077]

good as hendrix i think so 

[BMWLDRider]

Good stuff!

[mrrusss]

For all the work it will take to catch this guy, I might as well set out to be on equal footing with Einstein or Bohr in physics.

[ray123ification]

I love jazz guitar and I think Joe Pass is my favorite. He swings.

[giovannidema]

people like this should be immortals... 

[Sessoms9]

HOW COULD U DISLIKE THIS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Joe pass is so brilliant and talented he is my inspiration

[WhiteNightRiots]

This is pure magic resuscitated in audio form

[TubeYouScreen]

Joe Pass knows more chord voicings than God.

[JazzJunkie4]

Man, joe can even make that crap guitar sound good.

[shecky308]

I wish ibanez would still make this jp-20 model  in Japan,but renamed to the old specs.!

[entity3sf]

To mind, without doubt the greatest jazz guitarist in history. Met him at a University master class. He was kind and a perfect gentleman.

[G3r0n1mo]

1:37 His face!

Hahaha

[hugleberthumperdink]

@G3r0n1mo It's like he's thinking - 'What the hell? Did I just make this awesome or what?'. Yes Mr Pass, you most certainly did.

[ivan89705]

Master

[Hollcall]

Heroin ....YES . For over 10 years. Amazing Player , EH?

[ChannelDJP]

i wish he was my grandad

[aleksandersucharski]

@ChannelDJP if he was, you'd not appreciate him as much as you do now ;)

[ravidco]

amazing.

[MacPro8CoreMan]

@korg8000 "classic rock"... "Guns"... Are you joking??? Guns n Roses... Classic??? I don't even like Led Zepplin but I respect them enough not to include them in the same thought pattern as the crap band GNR! Classic... No! A tiny meaningless speck on the road that is real Rock and Roll? Yep; that's GNR.

[stereoscopicify]

joe pass on Heroin!

he sure does have that stare?

[issarakoat]

he's the best

[gg5167]

Formidable !!!

[jazzaces294]

I'm gonna go practice now

[renemill]

Martin Taylor just stepped on Joe Pass´ steps.

[Korg8000]

Dude, i'm into classic rock, guns and zeppelin and stuff. But this man plays the guitar like god on speed! Can't even compare this to anything else i've seen!

[RocknPak]

I'm 13 and I think he's amazing! Check out my original song/improvisation "Seventh Blues" on my channel.

[teracite]

i love that .

[TheStickpresnas]

i like the bassist:

his thumb!

[cjoey39]

Absolutely beautiful jazz/blues solo! So much talent!!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"

[metalfatigue217]

This guy looks like he's been practicing.

[CavenEdwards]

Joe Pass such a beautiful guitarist. His music puts me at ease and relaxes me. Joe Pass is the greatest!!!

[blueturtleblues]

I love this man...RIP

[rapidtranq]

I still cannot believe this man was a raging heroin addict.....!!WTF. A true prodigy.

[GUITARARTS]

At the Time of this Video, Joe Pass had long since tamed his demons and was one of the kindest, wisest Human beings on Earth -and probably the Greatest Jazz Guitarist.

[Horsieboms]

@GUITARARTS Yes he and Wes

[icanpeeyee]

@GUITARARTS Greatest Jazz Guitarist, really? I think your right, no, I know.

[spoofzilla]

@rapidtranq It's hard to beleive how many fantastic musician did, or still do drugs, yet are such amazing players! Miles, Bird, and Jaco come to mind. It's kind of scary to see the relationship with talented mind and their drug abuse. Not that drugs create talent, but how so many talented people turn to drugs.

[TampoFTW]

@rapidtranq What do ya think made him so good?

[cbjgdicad1]

@TampoFTW  smack

[PinkyWontWork]

@TampoFTW What made him so good? Well I have a retarded neighbor and if you put him on crack and beat him halfway to death even then he'd tell you..PRACTICE made him that good. Hard for you or others to understand this because you have probably never devoted over 20 yrs of CONSTANT hard work towards anything. If you did, then you'd understand how people get good at the endeavors they choose. You eat, sleep, fuck, shit, dream, and live for the instrument plain and simple.

[TampoFTW]

@PinkyWontWork

Hard for you to understand that I was just jokin' with the whole 'heroin made him good part.

Of course he probably spent 12 hours a day playing guitar, but that is perhaps why he ended up taking drugs?

[PinkyWontWork]

@TampoFTW Well no, heroin probably did help him play longer and more relaxed. No joke, the more relaxed you play the longer and more effective you can practice so I'm sure heroin helped. I know pot does but I don't smoke weed or mess with drugs.

[Praclik22]

@PinkyWontWork Actually his highest practicing activity was in times when he was getting off the drug shit. Kinda pretty long ago.

[rayjr62]

@rapidtranq his addiction went on throughout most of the 1950s. By 1960 Joe got himself clean and began to resume his career.

[nurikara]

@rapidtranq he struggled with his addiction before his (comparatively late) rise to fame, was cleansed for decades by the time this vid was shot, luckily for us joe pass lovers.

[rayjr62]

@rapidtranq back in the early to mid-50s. By the end of the decade he cleaned up and was playing great.

[ilikeeverything69]

@rapidtranq he was a jazz guitarist...of course he was a heroin addict

[nityanandi]

@rapidtranq John Collins, Nat King Cole's guitarist, another of my excellent teachers, couldn't believe when i kept insisting the Joe Pass was beyond heroin addiction, well-established in sobriety. Blessed by God.

[robostomo1]

i think ill be putting down the classic rock for a bit..

[rmgj]

I am agape, Joe Pass is a genius¡¡¡¡¡¡

[sparce6]

UNBELIEVABLE!

[angelialvares]

The Absolute King of Jazz Guitar!

[xXmasterbasserXx]

@4578a Listening is the most important part of practicing.

[Clintdog009]

You can tell by the music and his facial expressions hes grooving HARD!

[Codybtr]

lol hes great his face cracks me up though makes me wanna mustache =P

[gentilguy]

I wonder... is this improvised or not?

[MrTaylorN]

@gentilguy Most likely it is not, although I wouldn't be suprissed if there is a part in the song that is improvised.

[Composer19691]

@MrTaylorN He's totally improvising on the blues form. This is not worked out like an etude.

[Splurgendii]

@gentilguy maybe not all of it... but there is alwasy some degree of improv..

like dancing.. unless you're doing the mocorana, you never dance Exaclty the same way to a tune everytime!

[jellytroid]

this guy is a genius

[Blkserpent1]

Does this man ever miss a note. Awesome...Period.

[lumarelumare]

@Blkserpent1 haha actually he does quite a few times. he used to comment on how guitar kids would copy even his errors.

[entity3sf]

I miss you Joe.

[ppedalen]

He needs practice...LOL

[MrMarikanu]

the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best !!!

[hugomerol]

master

[synesthesia67]

amazzing.....how??

[willbilly2fistmcgee]

Taking it for a Walk !

[teemlee51]

Joe could make an Estaban sound good. I got 1 for a camp fire axe and thats all its good for...fire wood

[elortibamal]

que capo que es joe

[midislseguy]

Yikes!!!

[Zoerento]

Wonder!

[MrShawnyriver]

Joe is unbelievable. Good god!

[rinaldiluxor]

ZARPADO!!!

[shecky308]

Honestly,the epi joe pass is entry level and I should have purchased at least 2 of the jp-20s while they were still in production{by Ibanez}!!!!

[RonVermillion]

What would be the advantage of this model over the current AF105 or AF125 Ibanez guitars. I'm semi serious about an Ibanez.

ron

[Jellecaster]

I collect the Ibanez Artcores and just love them! You won't be disappointed by the AF105 - at all. I have five of them.

[shecky308]

Come on people!!Call Ibanez and insist they put this jp-20 model back into production!It would be the greatest thing!! In limited production of course,thanks!{japanese}!!!!!!

[SphereAcidBurn]

Get the Epiphone Joe Pass then

[hagar208]

it looks so easy when he does it :o

[shecky308]

This Ibanez jp-20 is just great!Hoshino-gakki should put this model back into production in limited run!!!!!!

[cyrrusdavirus2]

I've just noticed that before this video, I had never seen Joe Pass' eyes before, cuz they're always closed when he plays. Such an amazing guitarist ...

[Joshplaysinstruments]

@cyrrusdavirus2 2:01

[rinaldiluxor]

un capo!

[MrBianculli]

hes actually playing a d'aquisto

[SphereAcidBurn]

That is an Ibanez

[BassicallyChristian]

You are right...its an Ibanez...Joe had an Aria model, a D'aquisto, and even a Gibson and Ephiphone Model. He also used Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster as well as Gibson's ES-175

[Namsaj61]

It's an Ibanez JP20

[MrAxeMurderer]

So what mood is this, dementia?

[hotlicks21]

so so clean

[IpkisStanley]

Beatiful. Joe Pass, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel some of my favorite jazz guitarists. Lovely music.

[keulito1983]

@IpkisStanley

dont forget george benson<3

[glueforall]

@keulito1983 Georgie...often overlooked because of his commercial success...killer player!

[hugleberthumperdink]

@keulito1983 And Herb Ellis. Of course

[ricoismybitch]

still so alive

[deathofisrael]

bravo,bravo....

[gambit5150]

this guys something else

[caneloni34]

Thanks Joe for all your music...

[PatPradana]

there are many solo jazz guitarists in the world with jaw dropping skills and amazing feels...but joe pass remains to be the most naturally gifted of 'em all...

[En3usiast]

Unbelievable musicality...swing, blues, improvisation...those counterpoint bass and lead lines are unsurpassed (pun intended!). Joe was a true genius and a great inspiration to so many players...your music lives on!

[SrPlayer]

Man, he´s the guy on guitar!!!!!

[wankatronic]

i've already commented on so many of Joe's videos, but it's worth repeating that the man was so brilliant. such a fluid sense of melody and improv. a true genius of jazz guitar, to be sure.

[Hypnus9]

Superb.

[zululcri]

Superb man wish cud be lik him excellent work

[viniguitarjazz]

FANTASTIC IS JOE !

[OMERTA011]

Hell YEAH!

that's like it's meant to be played.

[watersydpalmerzoso]

Un genio

Joe Pass RIP

[GymFloozie]

So this is blues. Okay. After watching a bunch of Joe's videos, I realize I can't play jazz OR blues. This man must have had a very wonderful soul.

[Dking863]

this isn't as hard as you think. you can do it. this is called target tone playing.. it's were you come in a half step high and slide it down to the melody line... it soundes very complex but it really isn't.. you just have to know where your at.. all music is taken from one scale.. the major scale...if you know that then you wil get it,

[GymFloozie]

Thanks for the encouragement, but even if I understood all that, I don't think I would ever have the finger dexterity to do it. Maybe I need to practice more.

[Dking863]

you can do it! there is only 24 combinations you can play with you four fingers. that's it. Here's what you do, the pinky finger and the ring finger are the same muscle.. they connect in your wrist.. that's why it's hard to get those two to act independent of each other.. so those are the ones you work on.. try playing the guitar with three fingers, when you practice.. leave the index out of it, next hold down your index finger on the neck and play using the other three. that will do it.

[GymFloozie]

You know - you're right. My 3 and 4 finger have no coordination. When one moves, the other wants to move. I will practice to get those stronger! Thanks much for the idea!

[Mike3303]

This isn't pure blues, but a blues-jazz fusion. But yes, Joe takes it to the next level.

[SPGGuitar251]

Love Joe! I attended GIT in 1986, and once, while my friend Brian and I were in Joe Diorio's small office, Joe Pass walked in, plugged in, and he and Mr. Diorio proceeded to tear it up! We stood right over Mr. Pass' shoulder, and watched the magic happen.

[IamDUFF]

hehe, so i totally can play with B.B right? ah, jimi's easy nowadays, but THIS is freaking a great mixup =) love this dude, i'mma start hittin him for riffs. =)

[4578a]

You people need to go practice your instruments.

[zinnington]

Damn right, Must be youngins talking through their butt hole. Joe was a genius.

[bnapoleonc123]

Agreed,

[CosmicChickenNo1]

ohh yeahhhh just what i needed for a Mon.

much better

[augfive]

buddy guy? lol- how can you compare ? apples and oranges--that beinbg said  Joe was levels beyond both apples and oranges

[bnapoleonc123]

I think in jazz the term "blues" refers to the use of a blues FORMAT, e.g. 12 bar format, rather than the playing of the GENRE "blues." In the GENRE of "blues" buddy guy is easily one of the best, but I doubt he coud do a Joe pass in terms of jazz.. So yo are right, apples and roanges definitely.

[spaceanteIope]

The Format is the Genre these are not separate things.

[bnapoleonc123]

I repectfuly have to disagree with you. Blues, Rock and jazz are all seperate genres with different sets of principles and style, a good rock player may not be a good jazz player and vice versa. All three genres use a 12 bar format though, so i would argue therefore that the fromat and genre are seperate. Joe pass is playing a jazz 12 bar, Buddy Guy plays a blues 12 bar, and Chuck Berry/Status Qou etc play a rock 12 bar. 3 different genres, but with a common format. .

[philipmazz27]

Rock, blues and jazz are all sub-genres popular music.

[bnapoleonc123]

True.

[apfried]

they are defnitely seperate, if I was to fry some rice and make some honey chicken its still not chinese food, because i made it

[Narimatzu]

music just isnt made like this anymore

[Telmog]

So Simple. I'm amazed with all the nuances. RIP King Pass.

[MrPeranz]

Hi's awesome!

[4578a]

This is jazz!!! No, it's blues!!! Jazz! blues! jazz ! blues! Well, one thing we can agree on is that it's music! Listen to it.

[wunshiin]

good music at that!!

[baldlawnmower]

If you ask me jazz without just a little blues isn't jazz.

[MrVerna]

Un grande de todos los tiempos...

[Unnoticed37]

I guess he was pretty good at playing the guitar.

[J0hnL0era]

i love his face you can jus tell how much he enjoys the instrument and the music he creates it looks like his souls flowing through his fingers and into that guitar:)

[irgifted]

This man is incredible.