@Threepwoodist Not Stephen King, but I get the resemblance... Bob Magnusson on upright. One of LA's finest- he's played with a lot of major jazz acts. Also was an instructor at BIT/MI for almost 20 years. Serious dude along the lines of Charlie Haden, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter.
I've subscribed to various guitar magazines over the years, so I've obviously heard of this man, but never got around to checkin him out til just now... NO WONDER there's been so many articles written about him... TOP NOTCH... I feel humbled and inspired at the same time.
The way he holds the guitar; his fingering style, this man has managed to take the technique of the classical guitar and incorporate it seamlessly into the style of jazz. I just fell in love.
I honestly clicked on this video thinking that I wouldn't like this version because it would be at a disadvantage to a vocal cover, lacking lyrics and such. Boy was I wrong! This cover expressed just as much emotion, if not, more than many vocal covers I've heard of this beautiful song! I LOVE IT.
@0live0wire0 You really need two things: first, be more respectful, and second to analyze pieces stylistically, aesthetically and metaphysically and not just accept something only because it exists. Everything can be compared with anything.
@Rickriquinho you should be more respectful to genius musicians like Hendrix. I appreciate the musical and instrumental mastery of Joe and i can assure you i didn't take anything for granted, still i can't see how Hendrix is less musician than Joe. I'm not after complexity or technique. It's a matter of taste.
@0live0wire0 Genius? Hendrix is just a name… He didn’t express himself; he didn’t explore harmonies to create a solo. He just created noise. Art is another thing; listen to Mozart or Lennie Tristano to start to understand. Free yourself of pop music.
@Rickriquinho Hendrix created noise I love. And why can't I love them all and appreciate them for what they are? Can't I have Mozart, Hendrix, Bach, Paco de Lucia, Hank Williams Sr, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Muse, Puccini, Piaf, Marceneiro, Wilco and on and on and on. You accuse others of needing to free themselves of pop music, maybe you need to free your mind too. Mozart and Beethoven weren't just trying to make art, they wanted to make pop music - no lie.
@Rickriquinho Also, art isn't about virtuousity, it is about how it makes us feel. Some of my fave music is the simplest - maybe I am a simpleton (inherent benefit is not knowing it). Lightnin' Hopkins can crush me with 2 chords and 4 poorly plucked notes but I feel it in the depths of my soul. Isn't that what music is supposed to be? What's with all the comparison and analysis? Dead Poet's Society - you might as well graph each compostions musical merrits to determine its worthiness.
@kashmir11281 Mozart and Beethoven were pop composers? Please don’t make me waste my time, you are so naive… Comparison and analysis are part of one thing called stylistics, but you probably couldn’t understand. Lightnin' Hopkins? Please try to learn this: art is one thing and folklore is another thing. The difference between you and me is that I am questioning the reality and you just accept it.
@Rickriquinho Mozart and Beethoven were very concerned with being popular and well received. Your too deluded, elitist and condescending to waste my time. Have fun in the little box you created for yourself.
@kashmir11281 You are confounding to work for a public (social matter) with the concept of art (stylistic matter). To sell a composition or to accept incumbency doesn’t mean that the work itself is pop. Beethoven basically composed what he wanted; Mozart refuse himself to compose easy music (there are many letters to confirm this.) We must evaluate art per se disregarding historical or social aspects. Try to work with concepts, ok?
@Rickriquinho You indirectly refered to Hendrix as pop music. Since stylistically, Hendrix isn't pop, you could have only meant it was pop music by the original intended meaning of pop, popular. I was following your logic. Folklore encompasses art. Besides, Hopkins is blues. Blues and jazz have the same origin and overlapped in their early years so if blues is folklore, then jazz is folklore.
@kashmir11281 It’s hard to discuss with you because you are relativist and don’t understand the reality by means of concepts, and also like to twist words. Art is complex and folklore is unsophisticated. An amoeba cannot be compared with an eagle. Folklore, Pop or Popular are all the same; pop is an urban folklore. You really can compare the complexity of a String quartet with a man singing a ridiculous song with a guitar playing three chords? Please…
@Rickriquinho You're the first person to equate an ecclectic taste in music to simply being easily pleased. Telling others, they don't challenge what is and yet hold to a rigid definition of music. One that the musicians you actually respect wouldn't even agree with. Those other types of music, I mean noise, have their own intricacies and aesthetics which you should know being concerned with stylistics. If the main point in listening is critique, there is no point in listening.
Blues and Jazz don’t have the same origin… it’s not that simple. Jazz is very complex to be folkloric. I don’t care if no one agrees with me, artists generally speaking don’t understand anything about art; we know it since Classical Antiquity, Socrates, etc. You are also making a criticism and you are also analyzing, the difference is that I am thinking coherently and you are not.
@Rickriquinho You assume that I immediately don't understand what you say but I do understand. You just show logical inconsistencies. Blues and jazz share an origin whether you like it or not. Go back some posts and you are the one who said everything can be compared with anything.
@kashmir11281 Do you only know one meaning for each word? Please don’t make me waste my time. Stay in your ignorance and leave me alone… One last lesson:
compare
To examine in order to note the similarities or differences of.
To be worthy of comparison; bear comparison: two concert halls that just do not compare.
@Rickriquinho No word twisting, I clearly showed your inconsistency of thought, which is it, can all things be compared or not? Your response is bla bla bla, I realized by the maturity of that combined with you thinking I don't comprehend anything you say, in which you convey simple ideas, yet don't comprehend a single thing I say, you're a teenager - not your fault, time will cure you. Also the irrational idealism of youth - I get it, I went through that phase too.
@kashmir11281 What do you want? To prove me that Goethe and Robert Ludlum; Britney Spears and Sarah Vaughan; Tintoretto and Andy Warhol are all the same, that they have the same artistic value just because their names are known? Why do you want to waste our time in a discussion like this? You are simpleton. Please, leave me alone.
@Rickriquinho It's metaphor about your personality, had nothing to do with comparison. Let me explain, you said art is complex, folk is unsophisticated. You can't compare an eagle with an amoeba. So art is an eagle and folk is a single-celled organism. You dimiss anything that is seemingly simple, folk symbollically the amoeba. Yet upon closer examination, the amoeba shows geat complexity - obvious life lesson which goes beyond music. You need a reading comprehension course statim.
@kashmir11281 Don’t be stubborn. I’ve already told you, one thing is “to compare” meaning “analysis” and other thing is “to compare” meaning “to be worthy of comparison”. You don’t understand even this? It’s constraining, you don’t have real culture…
@Rickriquinho As a lesson to someone so high-minded to not be dismissive to something just because at first glance it appears simple (therefore common, yuck, BTW you must hate Aaron Copland). It was thought humans would have the largest and most complex genome being the most evolved, yet an amoeba's genome is 100x larger than that of a human,. I bet the amoeba will be surviving long after the eagle goes extinct. Finally, to each his own - no greater relativist words ever spoken!
@Rickriquinho I agree, they don't. Swing and "Jazz" originated from Sousa marches and blues. Blues... I don't know where it came from. But you're right, my friend :)
@Rickriquinho Ah, I see! You know, since you mentioned ragtime, you should read up on Hank Jones' reaction to seeing Art Tatum play for the first time :)
@0live0wire0 Pop in "Are You Experienced" and appreciate it for how kick a#$ it is. Then sit back have a drink, watch Pirate Radio and remember Kenneth Branagh is the bad guy.
@Rickriquinho I hate today´s mainstream music. But you should check your definition of "culture". Hendrix was a great musician for all I know, so was Pass, if you won´t acknowledge, well... Goodbye
@Calymos Hey man, ye its been a time since i wrote that comment , i cant find it so i dont know how much its been, but i started learning it by ear, i got the chords down. And yeah it has changed the way i play guitar. Cheers
love how he grabs a pick out of his pocket while casually bouncing a hammer on over a bar or two, does it on other tunes of the same concert. Classic Joe!
@Fratos9 Joe paid his dues. His dad made him because he didn't want Joe to end up a steelworker like he was. Life wasn't easy for him and although he had a name in the late forties an addiction to heroin put him out of action through most of the fifties. I'm grateful for the Jack Jackson Radio program here in the UK for making 'Catch Me' by Joe his theme song around 1964. Still a hip tune played beautifully. Also, listen to 'For Django', his homage to the great gypsy player. Both were masters.
usually, 99percent of people that respond to something in a negative way. ,,,,, like some of the comments below, are the ones that are really bored., jealous.,, and, or have nothing to do in life. they need attention ., and usually have no lives at all. most than likely,,,they are not musicians. they think this is some king of a chatroom or something like hat. go ahead and, study yourselves
I saw Joe Pass every chance I could in Annapolis, Md.in th 80's. What a master of his instrument and a gentleman. Amazing stuff with or without a pick.
Met an 11 yr old kid that said Metallica's guitar was the best, told him to go home and give Joe Pass a listen ... really listen... Hope I saved another impressionable kid from todays mindless no-talent . Joe Pass Rocks!!!
How can you be so much obsessed with justin bieber? Everytime I watch some music videos on youtube there's someone who's complaining about justin bieber. Am I the only one who doens't give a fuck about him?
Joe was a man who didn't compromise. He has several instructional videos out I think on Homespun Videos. His record with Herb Ellis "Two for The Road" is great as well as him playing with Ella Fitzgerald live at Montreux. . Probably drank way too much cause of his liver cancer. Played hard worked hard drank hard. he told a story about his son asking whether he thought he was as fast as Van Halen or some such. He responded with a smirk and said he didn't think it was a proper comparison
Joe Pass was a fabulous artist -- I was lucky to see him several times live, and feel VERY fortunate to see this video, thanks for posting this video All the Things You Are to Me
This man is one of the greatest , Bola Sette ,Luis Bonfa ,Charlie Chritian these guys are it man don't let no one tell you different , Old West Montgomery there's not too many of them they come few and far between. Cal Tjader, and Chet Atkins is another two but this a group very very special group of musicians my man and none of them are an easy man to follow they are just way out there .
I remember in high school 6 years ago we listened to Joe Pass. I can't remember the song, but from the sound of it, we always referred to him as "The weather man". Awesome music!
Joe was/IS one cool cat I.. love his playing.
kramer87 1 day ago
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I can't believe anyone disliked this. This is one of the best chord-melody theorists of all time.
gnomadetube 2 days ago
joe pass is good
imbetarthenu 3 days ago in playlist jazz
Can anyone tell me who the bass player is? He's not Niels, but he's still pretty tasteful :)
KillswitchEngage42 3 days ago
Be ALL THE THINGS
Zandonus 3 days ago
@Zandonus I love you!
KillswitchEngage42 3 days ago
@KillswitchEngage42 its ok.
Zandonus 2 days ago
El maestro Joe Pass, buen video!!!
mezclacreativa 4 days ago
thump >Replay<
ConfusionXIII 4 days ago
Took him a minute to dig around in his pocket to find the pick.
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Guitars for sale, cheap. I quit!
MrRazorblade999 1 week ago
Joe Pass... what does he tune down to?
psyoptica 2 weeks ago
@psyoptica
I think that he wanted different sound and easily playability generating from week string tension.
being719 2 weeks ago
Awesome stuff Joe, I love that you played fingerstyle and you made it look like a Sunday stroll in the park.
kashmir11281 3 weeks ago
Stephen King is on bass!
Threepwoodist 4 weeks ago
@Threepwoodist Not Stephen King, but I get the resemblance... Bob Magnusson on upright. One of LA's finest- he's played with a lot of major jazz acts. Also was an instructor at BIT/MI for almost 20 years. Serious dude along the lines of Charlie Haden, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter.
lonkennedy 4 weeks ago
@lonkennedy Jesus man get a fucking life, have you no sense of humour?
Threepwoodist 3 weeks ago
Here for my daily visit.
HTMHicks 1 month ago 9
Dios tenga en su santa gloria al señor del jazz joe pass
fer40466 1 month ago
I'm in the jazz guitar part of youtube again.
Aspartamebraintumor 1 month ago
I've subscribed to various guitar magazines over the years, so I've obviously heard of this man, but never got around to checkin him out til just now... NO WONDER there's been so many articles written about him... TOP NOTCH... I feel humbled and inspired at the same time.
MrKennykaos 1 month ago
i didnt know stephen king played bass
zachbeef 1 month ago 10
The way he holds the guitar; his fingering style, this man has managed to take the technique of the classical guitar and incorporate it seamlessly into the style of jazz. I just fell in love.
Gibsonites 1 month ago
I honestly clicked on this video thinking that I wouldn't like this version because it would be at a disadvantage to a vocal cover, lacking lyrics and such. Boy was I wrong! This cover expressed just as much emotion, if not, more than many vocal covers I've heard of this beautiful song! I LOVE IT.
aseretkavon 1 month ago
Joe Pass is the greatest guitar player of history. When someone talks to me about Jimmy Hendrix I just laugh of his/her ignorance.
Rickriquinho 1 month ago
@Rickriquinho bullshit, you just chose apples over oranges. Even Miles Davis wanted to play with Hendrix.
0live0wire0 3 weeks ago
@0live0wire0 You really need two things: first, be more respectful, and second to analyze pieces stylistically, aesthetically and metaphysically and not just accept something only because it exists. Everything can be compared with anything.
Rickriquinho 3 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho you should be more respectful to genius musicians like Hendrix. I appreciate the musical and instrumental mastery of Joe and i can assure you i didn't take anything for granted, still i can't see how Hendrix is less musician than Joe. I'm not after complexity or technique. It's a matter of taste.
0live0wire0 3 weeks ago
@0live0wire0 Genius? Hendrix is just a name… He didn’t express himself; he didn’t explore harmonies to create a solo. He just created noise. Art is another thing; listen to Mozart or Lennie Tristano to start to understand. Free yourself of pop music.
Rickriquinho 3 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho Hendrix created noise I love. And why can't I love them all and appreciate them for what they are? Can't I have Mozart, Hendrix, Bach, Paco de Lucia, Hank Williams Sr, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Muse, Puccini, Piaf, Marceneiro, Wilco and on and on and on. You accuse others of needing to free themselves of pop music, maybe you need to free your mind too. Mozart and Beethoven weren't just trying to make art, they wanted to make pop music - no lie.
kashmir11281 3 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho Also, art isn't about virtuousity, it is about how it makes us feel. Some of my fave music is the simplest - maybe I am a simpleton (inherent benefit is not knowing it). Lightnin' Hopkins can crush me with 2 chords and 4 poorly plucked notes but I feel it in the depths of my soul. Isn't that what music is supposed to be? What's with all the comparison and analysis? Dead Poet's Society - you might as well graph each compostions musical merrits to determine its worthiness.
kashmir11281 3 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 Mozart and Beethoven were pop composers? Please don’t make me waste my time, you are so naive… Comparison and analysis are part of one thing called stylistics, but you probably couldn’t understand. Lightnin' Hopkins? Please try to learn this: art is one thing and folklore is another thing. The difference between you and me is that I am questioning the reality and you just accept it.
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho Mozart and Beethoven were very concerned with being popular and well received. Your too deluded, elitist and condescending to waste my time. Have fun in the little box you created for yourself.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 You are confounding to work for a public (social matter) with the concept of art (stylistic matter). To sell a composition or to accept incumbency doesn’t mean that the work itself is pop. Beethoven basically composed what he wanted; Mozart refuse himself to compose easy music (there are many letters to confirm this.) We must evaluate art per se disregarding historical or social aspects. Try to work with concepts, ok?
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho You indirectly refered to Hendrix as pop music. Since stylistically, Hendrix isn't pop, you could have only meant it was pop music by the original intended meaning of pop, popular. I was following your logic. Folklore encompasses art. Besides, Hopkins is blues. Blues and jazz have the same origin and overlapped in their early years so if blues is folklore, then jazz is folklore.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 It’s hard to discuss with you because you are relativist and don’t understand the reality by means of concepts, and also like to twist words. Art is complex and folklore is unsophisticated. An amoeba cannot be compared with an eagle. Folklore, Pop or Popular are all the same; pop is an urban folklore. You really can compare the complexity of a String quartet with a man singing a ridiculous song with a guitar playing three chords? Please…
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho You're the first person to equate an ecclectic taste in music to simply being easily pleased. Telling others, they don't challenge what is and yet hold to a rigid definition of music. One that the musicians you actually respect wouldn't even agree with. Those other types of music, I mean noise, have their own intricacies and aesthetics which you should know being concerned with stylistics. If the main point in listening is critique, there is no point in listening.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
Blues and Jazz don’t have the same origin… it’s not that simple. Jazz is very complex to be folkloric. I don’t care if no one agrees with me, artists generally speaking don’t understand anything about art; we know it since Classical Antiquity, Socrates, etc. You are also making a criticism and you are also analyzing, the difference is that I am thinking coherently and you are not.
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho You assume that I immediately don't understand what you say but I do understand. You just show logical inconsistencies. Blues and jazz share an origin whether you like it or not. Go back some posts and you are the one who said everything can be compared with anything.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
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Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 Do you only know one meaning for each word? Please don’t make me waste my time. Stay in your ignorance and leave me alone… One last lesson:
compare
To examine in order to note the similarities or differences of.
To be worthy of comparison; bear comparison: two concert halls that just do not compare.
Comparison: a musician beyond compare.
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho No word twisting, I clearly showed your inconsistency of thought, which is it, can all things be compared or not? Your response is bla bla bla, I realized by the maturity of that combined with you thinking I don't comprehend anything you say, in which you convey simple ideas, yet don't comprehend a single thing I say, you're a teenager - not your fault, time will cure you. Also the irrational idealism of youth - I get it, I went through that phase too.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 What do you want? To prove me that Goethe and Robert Ludlum; Britney Spears and Sarah Vaughan; Tintoretto and Andy Warhol are all the same, that they have the same artistic value just because their names are known? Why do you want to waste our time in a discussion like this? You are simpleton. Please, leave me alone.
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho It's metaphor about your personality, had nothing to do with comparison. Let me explain, you said art is complex, folk is unsophisticated. You can't compare an eagle with an amoeba. So art is an eagle and folk is a single-celled organism. You dimiss anything that is seemingly simple, folk symbollically the amoeba. Yet upon closer examination, the amoeba shows geat complexity - obvious life lesson which goes beyond music. You need a reading comprehension course statim.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 Don’t be stubborn. I’ve already told you, one thing is “to compare” meaning “analysis” and other thing is “to compare” meaning “to be worthy of comparison”. You don’t understand even this? It’s constraining, you don’t have real culture…
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho As a lesson to someone so high-minded to not be dismissive to something just because at first glance it appears simple (therefore common, yuck, BTW you must hate Aaron Copland). It was thought humans would have the largest and most complex genome being the most evolved, yet an amoeba's genome is 100x larger than that of a human,. I bet the amoeba will be surviving long after the eagle goes extinct. Finally, to each his own - no greater relativist words ever spoken!
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@kashmir11281 Bla bla bla...
Rickriquinho 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho I agree, they don't. Swing and "Jazz" originated from Sousa marches and blues. Blues... I don't know where it came from. But you're right, my friend :)
KillswitchEngage42 3 days ago
@KillswitchEngage42 Thank you! You’re right, jazz also came from ragtime. Blues came from oral tradition, spirituals, worksongs, etc.
Rickriquinho 2 days ago
@Rickriquinho Ah, I see! You know, since you mentioned ragtime, you should read up on Hank Jones' reaction to seeing Art Tatum play for the first time :)
KillswitchEngage42 2 days ago
@KillswitchEngage42 Yes, it's interesting!
Rickriquinho 1 day ago
@Rickriquinho Maybe it was Bud Powell's reaction... but he mentioned it to Hank on the way out of the club.
KillswitchEngage42 2 days ago
@0live0wire0 Pop in "Are You Experienced" and appreciate it for how kick a#$ it is. Then sit back have a drink, watch Pirate Radio and remember Kenneth Branagh is the bad guy.
kashmir11281 2 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho I laugh at your snobbism.
casanovajako 1 week ago
@casanovajako If you are a slave of today’s ideology it is your problem. I laugh at your lack of culture.
Rickriquinho 1 week ago
@Rickriquinho I hate today´s mainstream music. But you should check your definition of "culture". Hendrix was a great musician for all I know, so was Pass, if you won´t acknowledge, well... Goodbye
casanovajako 1 week ago
Joe Pass is a guitarist's guitarist
arjunkaul 1 month ago
Incomparable Bob Magnusson on bass, and Joe Porcaro on drums. Doesn't get any better than this.
DANYL5Archtop1 1 month ago
such an incredible player
NRYoung14 1 month ago
volume y u so lowwwwwwwwwwww!
fatbuddha09 1 month ago
that'd be Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen on he bass, for dobsonone
beezerk1 2 months ago
yet noone has tab it out :"/
CoolKwstas123 2 months ago
@CoolKwstas123
Learn it by ear! It will change the way you play guitar, I promise.
Calymos 1 month ago
@Calymos Hey man, ye its been a time since i wrote that comment , i cant find it so i dont know how much its been, but i started learning it by ear, i got the chords down. And yeah it has changed the way i play guitar. Cheers
CoolKwstas123 1 month ago
y do single notes on jazz guitars always sound as if thier innotated wrong it grates and never sounds pretty
dobsonone 2 months ago
@dobsonone cause they are. Seriously it's basically impossible to get perfect intonation on a guitar.
mattpolofka 1 month ago
@mattpolofka buzz feinten??
dobsonone 1 month ago
Who's playing the bass there?
monosyllabique 2 months ago
simply incredible.
bmc31190 2 months ago
over 1 million views. This makes me happy :)
eyehatepop 2 months ago
i wanna be like him when i'm getting older :)
angelic2203 2 months ago
Ayyyy! Stephen King! Brilliant author and an even more brilliant bassist!
covers4users 2 months ago
Καταπληκτικός κιθαρίστας και μουσικός!!! Πραγματικός θρύλος!!!
douskara 2 months ago
Interesting that George Harrison thought Joe Pass to be the World's best guitarist.
44RoganAve 2 months ago
love how he grabs a pick out of his pocket while casually bouncing a hammer on over a bar or two, does it on other tunes of the same concert. Classic Joe!
upT3mpo 2 months ago
@upT3mpo Where does this happen
Junnage 2 months ago
@Junnage 2:45
upT3mpo 2 months ago
КРУТО!
Chernov1984 3 months ago
way to go joe-
hswatnik 3 months ago
Who are the ones on drums and bass? I've only seen Pass live w/Pedersen (Niels Henning Orsted that is), Martin Drew and Peterson, Oscar that is.
eqsmooth 3 months ago
2:47 ehe...
aportieri8 3 months ago
@aportieri8 Just getting his pick from his pocket, buddy :P
Infrawhite 3 months ago
@Infrawhite I know (what else could that be?!), it makes me smile 'cause he acts like he's just jammin' with his friends
aportieri8 3 months ago
Masterful ! Without equal. Deedwerksmatters@yahoo.com
Chiliplease 3 months ago
WOW
Chomp0nThis 3 months ago
Love this! On my ipod, ipad, iphone and iMac FTW!!!
therodiger 3 months ago
holy shnikes
synesthesia67 3 months ago
No somos nada en este universo :')
erickfullmoon27 3 months ago
@3:05 wow.
jonathan1stewart 3 months ago
JOE PASS was the reason to love my guitar again...
voukis6 3 months ago 8
@voukis6 fucking right
sharingan41 3 weeks ago
NICE!
jacobkoch 3 months ago
is he using a guitar pick?
LouSassle28 3 months ago
@LouSassle28 he's finger picking o.o
OMGaustin1 3 months ago
such a virtuoso
estintomorendo 4 months ago
He's a smooth bastard isn't he!
Fratos9 4 months ago
@Fratos9 Joe paid his dues. His dad made him because he didn't want Joe to end up a steelworker like he was. Life wasn't easy for him and although he had a name in the late forties an addiction to heroin put him out of action through most of the fifties. I'm grateful for the Jack Jackson Radio program here in the UK for making 'Catch Me' by Joe his theme song around 1964. Still a hip tune played beautifully. Also, listen to 'For Django', his homage to the great gypsy player. Both were masters.
oldsyphilitic 3 months ago
Yeah Joe!! killin it like always
megalodong 4 months ago
WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE VIDEOS FROM THIS PERFORMANCE?!
pencap23 4 months ago
che spettacolo!
tomcecca 4 months ago
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What a wonderfull song! Real talent. Please check out my original jazz composition on guitar on the front page on my channel. Thank You! :)
alsklaftsk123 4 months ago
well done Joe Passalacqua!!
mic270469 4 months ago
Best version I've ever heart... I can't imagine who dislikes this.....
leandrospeedrj 4 months ago
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leandrospeedrj 4 months ago
es jazz o guitarra clasica??
armamusic11 4 months ago
@armamusic11
Jazz
mjazzguitar 4 months ago
@mjazzguitar me refiero a su tecnica parece mucho mas un guitarrista clasico que un "
jazzista"
armamusic11 4 months ago
@armamusic11 I see.
mjazzguitar 4 months ago
Heavenly.
empathic11 4 months ago
He makes it look so easy.
Geotubest 4 months ago
y esta es la que me tengo que aprender para el viernes.. el jazz si es un enredo..
alejandrobedoya666 4 months ago
The master, he had it.
StephenFiorentini 4 months ago
we have the same birthday!
guitar19904 4 months ago
sooo soft...everyting is maxed too! i have to put my ears super close to my laptop now :/
FLYBYNIYT 5 months ago
well, maybe he scratched while he was down there, but the hand comes back with a pick.
fredxmertz 5 months ago
I just found out who Joe Pass is........don't hate. This is beautiful.
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wonderful musician
guitarldh19 5 months ago
The last American art form.
6stringslinger 5 months ago
Incredibly and naturally beautiful melody.
larrystarstruck 5 months ago
usually, 99percent of people that respond to something in a negative way. ,,,,, like some of the comments below, are the ones that are really bored., jealous.,, and, or have nothing to do in life. they need attention ., and usually have no lives at all. most than likely,,,they are not musicians. they think this is some king of a chatroom or something like hat. go ahead and, study yourselves
MrTennispro2 5 months ago
@MrTennispro2 leave them alone: that's where they should be
swingmanu 4 months ago
which 1 left or right
mike4266 5 months ago
Superb! TY wknit for posting.
paulostroff99 5 months ago
I saw Joe Pass every chance I could in Annapolis, Md.in th 80's. What a master of his instrument and a gentleman. Amazing stuff with or without a pick.
gbournaz 5 months ago
damn... that was clean
foewest 5 months ago
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Elevator music at its best
darthsempra 5 months ago
@darthsempra You're a douche.
omnigodx11 5 months ago 16
@darthsempra The only thing this elevates is my appreciation of genius.
MrJesusjazz 5 months ago 2
superbe jazz classique
delorean63 6 months ago
Met an 11 yr old kid that said Metallica's guitar was the best, told him to go home and give Joe Pass a listen ... really listen... Hope I saved another impressionable kid from todays mindless no-talent . Joe Pass Rocks!!!
ivorystroker 6 months ago
@ivorystroker joe pass doesnt rock, he jazzes
andrewm9999 6 months ago 2
@ivorystroker I wouldn't call Kirk Hammett mindless. He seems to know what he's doing. Of course, he's no Joe Pass, but few people are.
nevikmoore 6 months ago
@ivorystroker i dont thin metallica is the enemy, they are a godsend compared to dubstep and rap that comes out these dayss
Runningjoels 5 months ago
i'm sure we can all find something good today just not this good
thehoodedclot 6 months ago
Nice shoes, joe.
pyrowa 6 months ago
stephen king on the bass people
jccourtn1928 6 months ago 11
@jccourtn1928 No, actually Bob Magnusson. One of the great contemporary jazz bassists.
drdfuerpo 6 months ago
@jccourtn1928 He is very talented, I feel bad for never hearing about him!
WhoAreYouRe 2 months ago
2:50 arse itching?
daniel8d 6 months ago
@daniel8d Getting guitar pick from back pocket.
Newstetter 6 months ago 2
@Newstetter
Then he sits down and tosses out a quick riff like it's nothing.
mjazzguitar 4 months ago
hmm did not think it posted whoops well maybe it will get through to someone lol :)
jessebarrett78 6 months ago
i could not agree more the music today has no meaning nothing to it.
you can't feel any emotion in any junk on the radio.
its just a far cry for attention.
jessebarrett78 6 months ago
i could not agree more the music today has no meaning nothing to it.
you can't feel any emotion in any junk on the radio.
its just a far cry for attention.
jessebarrett78 6 months ago
@jessebarrett78
agreed.
guitar19904 6 months ago
i couldn't agree more music has no meaning now all it is to kids now is a cry for attention.
jessebarrett78 6 months ago
This is the only song i have in my 64gb itouch.
silentboom7 6 months ago 63
@silentboom7 Seems like a massive waste.
DaTimeHat 4 months ago
@silentboom7 That must be a really high bitrate recording... xD
Maafa1619 4 months ago
If God could play Guitar.....................
MachineHeadDissent 6 months ago 2
A REAL GREAT MUSICIAN !!!! RIP !!!
inclaric 6 months ago
Lovely music beautifully played.TY wknit for posting.
paulostroff99 6 months ago
How can you be so much obsessed with justin bieber? Everytime I watch some music videos on youtube there's someone who's complaining about justin bieber. Am I the only one who doens't give a fuck about him?
novembrinewaltz90 7 months ago
I've loved metal since I was 13, but I can appreciate and LOVE Jazz and Blues music for it's technical and musical qualities. Amazing.
PeaveyESP 7 months ago
I#ve loved metal since I was 13, but I can appreciate and LOVE Jazz and Blues music for it's technical and musical qualities. Amazing.
PeaveyESP 7 months ago
Joe was a man who didn't compromise. He has several instructional videos out I think on Homespun Videos. His record with Herb Ellis "Two for The Road" is great as well as him playing with Ella Fitzgerald live at Montreux. . Probably drank way too much cause of his liver cancer. Played hard worked hard drank hard. he told a story about his son asking whether he thought he was as fast as Van Halen or some such. He responded with a smirk and said he didn't think it was a proper comparison
Ambrosecaster 7 months ago
Jimi was Jimi, but Joe was Joe.
Diogenes1360 7 months ago
Joe Pass was a fabulous artist -- I was lucky to see him several times live, and feel VERY fortunate to see this video, thanks for posting this video All the Things You Are to Me
He was special and unique
fastborzoi 7 months ago
This is what all those guitarist should be studying-
davidgrech1 7 months ago
HEY JOE . WE LOVE YOU
yo7578 7 months ago
HEY JO WE LOVE YOU
yo7578 7 months ago
This comment is a long paragrpah reprimanding youtubers to stop hating on justin bieber on jazz videos. Now give me a thumbs up.
MowieOnFirePeeing 7 months ago
How the fuck can anyone dislike this?!?
esgimasd 7 months ago
@esgimasd
Anyone who hates this is retarded and tone deaf
MarshallWillanholli 7 months ago 3
i guess ill just stop playing guitar forever now
HotBeatzzz101 7 months ago
this sounds really good through a reverb unit!
sontesn1 7 months ago
!!! WoW !!!
denisisus 7 months ago
Does anyone else think Joe Pass looks a turtle when gets into his playing?
oKrBw 7 months ago
@oKrBw a guitar playing turtle?
Threepwoodist 7 months ago
2:55 Fuck you, Herman Li.
Mdaman13 7 months ago
3:59 those chords makes me crazy!!!
chxnde 7 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Who are the bassist and drummer please ???
qutam0 7 months ago
Who are the bassist and the drummer please ???
qutam0 7 months ago
Is that a Gibson ES165 Herb Ellis model? It doesn't have a zigzag tailpiece but it looks like a 165.
BlueMountainMystic 7 months ago
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BlueMountainMystic 7 months ago
This man is one of the greatest , Bola Sette ,Luis Bonfa ,Charlie Chritian these guys are it man don't let no one tell you different , Old West Montgomery there's not too many of them they come few and far between. Cal Tjader, and Chet Atkins is another two but this a group very very special group of musicians my man and none of them are an easy man to follow they are just way out there .
zorrodorado1 8 months ago
totally melodic and musical/ i love it!
mkfageros 8 months ago
I remember in high school 6 years ago we listened to Joe Pass. I can't remember the song, but from the sound of it, we always referred to him as "The weather man". Awesome music!
metalbynumber 8 months ago
I say: Hip hop is shit!!!
davidrichtr 8 months ago
Tis one of the greatest 7 minutes in the history of music
animumaurarium 8 months ago