Joe Pass - Lil' Darlin'

[freddymclain]

It doesn't get any better than this......

[uninvisible191]

MASTER !!!!

[amusiathread]

God speaking through Joe Pass? Don't be silly, Joe Pass IS God.

[dag146]

Joe Pass and his guitar sound was one of a kind, my friends. But, he will live on as long as there's DVDs and CD's. I always thought the day of his death, the country should have declared a day of mourning. Having attended some of his live performances and Guitar Workshops, and even though he once 'chewed me out' (rightly deserved) during one of his Workshops, I loved and admired Joe very much.

Dag146

[GearFiend]

@dag146

Your very lucky to have seen him live! Why did he chew you out during a workshop, though?

[dlowrie290]

I am a blues/rock/metal player, and after 14 years playing I finally realized that all guitar players should learn this style. It is musical, technical, and pleasing to the ear. Swing/Gypsy Jazz is music you can play for everyone at just about any time and you don't need an accompaniment, so when someone has a guitar out and asks you to play something, forget the master of puppets and pull out some Joe Pass, Freddie Green, or Django.

[bantenzSkid]

@dlowrie290 I agree dan I have exactley the same experience as you are. Before become professional musician I was rock metal fans. And now I realize that music should be art. So real musician must practice blues, jazz, swing, and that everything baig band stuff

[lilyleg]

The best of the best.

[johngoo343]

watch my 26 best blues and jazz guitarist list i put him at number 1

[MrMarikanu]

Congratulations to a great master of the guitar, I think it's one of the greatest guitarists in the world!

[cbs2don]

Joe Pass recorded some great tracks with the Gerald Wilson band in the 60's. Some of his best work.

[wlchambers]

i love tihs. and i can't understand for the life of me why in the world, a dog that can't roll over, gets more hits than this video.

[eerieinhabitants]

because the majority have no passion for anything real

[amusiathread]

Full version please! Great vid though, Joe Pass was truly the Segovia of jazz guitar.

[shecky308]

Jimmy Daquisto sure made a hum dinger of a jazz guitar!!!!

[paulefty]

nice!!!

[sulaimanswaleh]

i love joe pass..i've heard his rendition of the song a long tiem ago..but never heard the originals..i've just listened to it..and i came back to listen to joe's version again...WOW!!

[iNsaNeNic]

did joe ever play with a band or was he always alone?

[geosochi]

of course, Joe first built his reputation as a group player... it was later, only in the 70s that he became a star of solo jazz guitar and his other work was overshadowed in the eyes of casual listeners

[bejeeber]

His best playing was in a group setting IMO - with his trio album "Intercontinental" being his best album ever. This same Lil' Darlin' tune is featured on it GTW.

[entity3sf]

I'm not a religious man but sometimes I think I hear god speaking through Joe's guitar.

[zinnington]

I think you're right. There are churches then there churches. Why not Joe Pass's guitar.

[ohioplayer]

Man, That's some awesome stuff...that bass passage at :38 was very "nasty"..

[Finnbiffen]

oh no, why did it end?! :(

[SingerOfSwing]

Oh, man!  I would have loved to hear the whole thing.

[Cherokee6194159]

joe Pass,great player, but why did he do this to A GREAT SONG?

[Tangerinemustang]

you mean THIS by make it awesome right?

[lougar1]

Bummer it cuts off. Great playing by Joe Pass as usual.

[lougar1]

Segovia said or was it Terrega , that the guitar is like a little orchestra. In this sense it is true because you blend tambers on notes to get a sound in the harmony that you cannot do with a Piano. A piano plays middle C and that's it. A guitar can play middle C in three places reasonably and the thickness of the string changes the sound of the voice. This is true of almost all but a few notes. To say the guitar sounds the same all the time is an ignorant thing to say.

[NYJOS]

a piano can actually sound different depending on how you play it. i dont mean dynamics, its kinda like how you play the note. its complicated to explain in writing, but after grade 8 becomes essential so any pianist who still wants to progress.

[wildnites558]

Most talented junkie of all time!

[GuitarSauce]

More! More!

[bdrhythm]

Just fantastic! Man, I'd love to see this entire video. Thanks for the clip.

[Xekeo]

Thanks for the vid'. We need that instead Britney's ones.

[guitarhatti]

Excellent + excellent + excellent...Prometheus of bebop/jazz guitar....

[teaandbiscuits12bili]

Joe Pass. Lost Legend.

[TLPnega]

AGillen ur an idiot and ur opinion is crap.....this is jazz this is what it is......sure theres alot of variations off variations of jazz (jazz-fusion, bebop, swing; to name a few) but this is the basicis of it....what pass plays is complicated in so far as its a lot of extended chords and a walking bass in a small space but it doesnt sound bad. What your saying is that the melody and the feel gets lost in the blur of notes...i would never (ever) say that about pass....

[sosrosr]

i was born 1994, you died 1994. i wnt to see you, :')

[FretFreak02]

He is so good, I even bought his guitar =D! Lol, he really was a legend

[enigma373]

The music of Joe Pass isn't necessarily complex music in comparison to his peers (other Jazz legends)it is just complex on the instrument. If you listened to a lot of Jazz then you would be able to tell. Before you talk smack about this genius do yourself a favor and listen to his albums: Virtuoso, For Django and Unforgettable. Oh yeah, Louis Armstrong rarely wrote tunes, are you going tell me that he aint tha shit?

[str84ever]

I agree with AGillen887 i prefer piano based jazz, guitar doesn't fit into jazz for me, it sounds really out of place in big bands. But this video is really good and i really enjoy this on its own, if that makes sense.

[aaronentresz]

You ever heard of Freddie Green? You can't tell me that did not fit in to jazz!

[str84ever]

I haven't no but most jazz guitar i have heard doesn't sound right to me in big bands or trios or whatever. Nice to see all my minuses about my opinion, oh youtube.. back to the point though. I say it doesn't fit cause most of the solos i've heard could just be taken out of that song and stuck into another genre and sound the same. It's hard to explain, piano sounds different say comparing jazz to rock, e.g. watermelon man to bohemian rhapsody but guitar just sounds the same regardless.

[str84ever]

sorry two parts it doesn't all fit.. yeah you could stick a jazz guitar solo into a metal song and apply distorsion and it wouldn't sound out of place at all. Look up Rain, rain go away by Vince Guaraldi, the guitar solo in it could easily just be taken out and stuck into a jazz song. What i am getting at it guitar sort of just sounds the same whatever genre you stick it in, well to me anyway. If a song is arranged to be played on guitar its different cause thats the whole song and not a part.

[aaronentresz]

Freddie Green's guitar style was different in that he never really soloed. He was in a way, more like a harmony to the bass player. Also, he played an acoustic guitar. He had a nice subtle style that blended really nicely.

[spongey222]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Because by what you are saying you could take a Art Tatum solo, chuck it on organ and there you have dragonfoce. It doesn't work like that. Mostly to do with the scales and chords they use in jazz (and alot of the time the implied chords and changes when soloing). But to be fair... of course something is going to sound like rock if you chuck distortion on it and play it with a rock beat, thats what jazz/rock fusion is. But its a little bit

[spongey222]

more complex than that i feel. And to finish off i think guitar does belong in jazz ( i think that's what you're talking about anyway... if not tell me...) Look at alot of charlie parker's stuff, there's guitar in that. If its good enough for bird its good enough for me. And also i don't really think it matters what instrument it is played on, jazz is jazz... Any instrument could be used to play any genre if you really wanted it to...

[Wandercito]

the tempo jajja he joke freom us with that tempo, great great great!!!!

[chrisgreg0ry]

Why the hell stop it there!?!?!?!?!

[Ibik]

wow, he is amazing, my guitar taecher recomeneded me Joe Pass he is amazing.

[MillerOriaDuo]

oh, THIS is the stuff! the world misses you, Joe.

[morgoth195]

RIP Joe

You were the best

[CATTARIC]

not "were", he "is" the best, because there is no such great guitarist today. He is the best ALL the time.

[madtiger111]

Joe Pass kept it real, bitches.

[69466978]

i think that this man could make anything with a guitar

[mrblitz0]

i like all the guitar styles... akira takasaki, to joe pass, to yngwie, to django, to uli jon roth, to chet... a list could go on forever... even 'anti guitar' groups like sonic youth or nirvana have their place... fast... slow... complicated.. simple... all of that aside; for me, a song either resonates or it doesn't... and that could also depend upon the moment in time

[2882890]

You've summed it up, apart from that terrible Sonic Youth comment. Only joking for flips sake!

[Bolgey1]

the only problem is dat it doesnt go on longer

[Ybn902]

Joe pass is the REAL god..who dosnt think so do some research!!!

hes a fucking GENIUS!!!!defently the best at writing music...

not about speed!

about the music!!1

[Bartfender]

he is realy good indeed but so is wes montgomery and kenny burrell. You will never hear me say that joe pass is the best cause' all of them has a special quality i think. and those quality's are all good so it's not up to me to say that one of them is the best

[connordeag]

research??

Joe pass never wrote his own music!!

[xHarry2112x]

Oops, spelled improvise wrong. It's late.

[stratomaster136]

What about virtuoso #3? - anyway, his improvisational skill is essentially composing on the spot, loosely based around a chord progression

[connordeag]

true, I love Joe Pass's music and he has amazing improv skills

but he didnt come up with chord preoggresions so we cant really call him the best composer ever

[theriffer]

no, he re-wrote it!....and did it better than anyone else!

[connordeag]

re-write?

[theriffer]

Joe Pass with all humility claimed he only wrote one song........

Re: An Evening With Joe Pass

HOWERVER....so what? That takes NOTHING away from the fact that he most likely is/was/will be the worlds greatest guitar player ever? Why? Because of his neverending ability to WRITE ON THE SPOT INSTANTANEOUSLY melodies (and complicated ones)! Yes, he played songs others wrote. But I'll bet next weeks pays the composers never thought it would ever sound the way Joe Pass played them!

[connordeag]

research??

Joe pass allmost never wrote his own music!

[xHarry2112x]

Ever heard of Virtuoso #3? And when he does improve, even to standards, he might as well as composed it.

[natrat888]

great!! i wish it was longer

[laxfreakad]

does he pluck with a pick or fingers hurry please

[saln]

both, for the chord stuff he uses his fingers like this song, but when he plays more single note line based solo's he uses a pick, which would be like a dunlopp jazz 3 the small red ones.

[Gminor7]

Hey clubsandwedge, I know exactly how you feel. I never met Joe, of course, but I feel like he was my uncle or something. You know the kind of wisecracking, soft-hearted uncle who takes you places when you're a kid and let's you do stuff your parents would never do? I don't care who's "the best", music is not sports. I'd rather listen to Joe than anyone. He always makes me smile.

[nikolasredondo]

i think the same that you!

[doublearejazz]

good feel !- joe is realy good !

- lil darlin - i love it

:-)

..you wonna see/hear something innovative -

..how to improvise bach or mozart ..?!

look for video : "bach sarabande jazz guitar"

or go to renatorozic dot com /audio/bach or audio/mozat..

:-)

[bobplayer]

Loved Joe Pass for years, but haven't listened lately. Won't make that mistake again.  My cousin just sent me the clip and says the full version is on the "Apassionata" album / cd.

[Chordwayze]

Joe also does a version of L'il Darlin' on the album, 'Intercontinental Joe Pass' (1970's). Slightly slower and more reflective version, if you need to listen to learn it. No more to be said about shredding versus real music.

[KacanuHa]

THIS is what music is about, not about speed as all the mindless shredders and Yngwie wannabes think! He puts every bit of his soul into his songs and that deservers respect

[thearabianmage]

As an Yngwie/Vai/Satch fan, I feel I need to say something about what 'KacanuHa' as commented on. There are worse people out there in terms of music than Malmsteen ('50 Cent' for example) so think about that. Furthermore, Malmsteen has qualities to his music that I enjoy, and some that I don't, as does Steve Vai, Joe Pass, Jeff Beck, and Frank Zappa. They all hit their own separate buttons.

[thearabianmage]

'THIS is what music is about, not about speed as all the mindless shredders and Yngwie wannabes think! He puts every bit of his soul into his songs and that deservers respect' (KacanuHa) - Furthermore, a lot of people would term this (Pass/Wayne/jazz in general - as well as Malmsteen/Vai) as 'cerebral' and not 'soul' so your criticism is invalid anyway.

[xsilvermercuryx]

yea agreed, music was never about how fast you could play or how u can do whatever with ur hand or ur lungs or whatever, it's what comes out and it's what fits the audience's ears, yea so u can play at 300 BPM so what, doesn't mean u have soul.

[clubsandwedge]

I love Joe Pass :D

No really, I LOVE Joe Pass!

[ClassicRockFan1220]

I'll be doing this for my jazz band and I'm taking a solo on it. What a great song.

[faccdcazz]

eri e sei un bastardone

[mop16761]

the greatest jazz guitarist!!!

[Astroxtl]

WTF

[GTARLTR]

Live version is also on the Montreau Live album.

[GTARLTR]

Where is the rest of this???? One of my favourite JP renditions! Great work! Post some more . . . where is this from?