No matter what the top guitarists leaderboard say. Joe was the best, especially in solo. I've been listening to him for decades and I am still surprised of his taste, talent and personality. Plus he was a real gentle guy, modest, funny. He still is the best to me.
@tonybmusic11663 жыл бұрын
I’m a geezer who studied with him from 1973-75. I had just moved to Van Nuys from Vegas and even though I was short on funds would scrape together the money for the lessons. I moved down to Huntington Beach in ‘75 for work….I was playing clubs in a cover band and couldn’t make the commute to Northridge anymore but he was still teaching classes at Dick Grove School of Music on Ventura Blvd and that was a commute I could make on Saturday mornings. When I first moved to the Valley Joe was doing a jazz gig with Herb Ellis at a place called Diamonte’s (it is Diamonte’s and NOT a misspelling of Donte’s) on Ventura Blvd and I would nurse the two drink minimum in order to hear them play all night. I don’t play like him though….I don’t know why, but nothing rubbed off. I’ve been a working pro since 1964, doing nothing but music in order to support myself and keep from eating my kids and there was a period when I was playing nothing but piano at a 950 seat dinner theater (also kicking left hand bass…cheap bastards couldn’t afford a bassist?) and only played guitar on my breaks in one of the dressing rooms. I was going crazy at that place for 13 years not being able to play guitar. I also taught piano during the day….in California, you have to wear many hats in music in order to eat. But, yes….he was an incredible human being….very easy to be around and learn from.
@ClarenceHW9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, thank you!! I had a couple of Lessons with Joe in the early 70's, I brought his book (Joe Pass Guitar Style) into the lesson.... he said "don't bother with that, I can't read". My lessons consisted of him playing changes and me singing two or three notes for each chord, then I would play the chords and he would play back what I sang with stylistic jazz phrasing. Great lessons... then we would go out have pizza and beer, it was at a weeklong clinic in Mesa AZ. Also, he had his ES-175 at the time, I asked him if I could play it.. jeeze..... a bowed neck, high action and medium gauge flat wounds. 10 minutes on it and I was fried. Loved Joe.. a gentleman, and funny in a sly quiet way.
@m.allengibson94385 жыл бұрын
Wow! He was a treasure.
@LucasLucasMusic4 жыл бұрын
What an amazing story!
@tombstoneharrystudios5844 жыл бұрын
What a great way to learn how to improvise and train your ear at the same time!
@BigSmartArmed3 жыл бұрын
I heard his ES-175 went MIA before he passed Great story to cherish May he RIP and Happy Birthday!
@monat_son3 жыл бұрын
That must have been great! :) I stumbled upon Joe recently. It was a video with Ela Fitzgerald, loved it.
@erivers713 жыл бұрын
Omg. Joe Pass was a musical genius. Nobody can play like Joe. The passages he plays are absolutely insane.
@Arianrhod6 Жыл бұрын
That piece with John Williams and Joe Pass, master guitarists in different genres, that should have spawned an album. Would have been great...
@yunesbb7 жыл бұрын
this video proves that jazz guitarists (unlike other genres) are capable of improvising in any situation. jazz musicians are comfortable with any progression no matter how difficult it is.
@Jplent15 жыл бұрын
Jazz guitarists play circles around rock players who rely mostly on volume, distortion and various effects...not to mention theatrics.
@mjsmcd4 жыл бұрын
@@Jplent1 hendrix,beck were pretty good
@peterblock69643 жыл бұрын
@@mjsmcd Jeff Beck is incredibly expressive musically. Check out the DVD "Live at Ronnie Scott's" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9WBe9GrrdjVl3k.html especially: 04. Cause We've Ended As Lovers 07. Nadia 13. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Brush With The Blues 17. A Day In The Life
@doitnowvideosyeah58412 жыл бұрын
Pure jazz players, that never teally got rock usually cannot play it. They can do some of the tricks but lack the over the top element tock requires. Classical cats play better than anyone...as long as they have sheet music. They have a hard time improvising. Today many jazzers started with rock so they can do both.
Joe Pass was a National Treasure of the US. He was also, as we see, quite a character. His instruction videos are the very best teaching tools for guitar, and his album, "Virtuoso," is still jaw-dropping amazing to this day.
@stlev993 жыл бұрын
There are some great guitarists in the world, and then there is Joe Pass.
@robinwatson428211 ай бұрын
What, you mean, he's not that great?
@stlev9911 ай бұрын
@@robinwatson4282 no, I mean has has no peer. He is number 1
@GordiansKnotHere9 ай бұрын
These guys sitting there and improvising to Bach's Ciaccona is possibly one of the most beautiful moments I have ever seen or heard. Joe Pass and John Williams together? They are my most favorite guitarists! I never even knew this existed. Thank you very much for this!
@bobbygoesbig8 жыл бұрын
This group of guitarists (with Pepe Romero in place of JW) toured as the "Guitar Summit" in 1993, shortly before Pass' death. For their encore in Melbourne FL, Romero and Pena played Tarrega's "Recuerdos de la Alhambra", and Pass and Kottke improvised a blues. It was the most stunning evening of guitar playing that one could ever hope for.
@somesquirrel7 жыл бұрын
Is that on youtube? It would be awesome to see.
@bawseeeee6023 жыл бұрын
Wow! Sounds amazing. That was before my time but I would have loved to have been there to listen. Thanks for sharing.
@jamro2173 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Did you ever notice how the really talented people are often humble, funny, everyday folks? Joe Pass is a perfect example of that.
@prototek-65829 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Joe's playing, as well as his personality and sense of humor, never fails to bring a smile to my face. I get the feeling that those lucky enough to have called him "friend" must feel truly blessed.
@JazzgutsVGvanKampen2 жыл бұрын
Joe's words, I can improvise on those chords because I more or less know where you're going, that's a true improvisor.
@kenster8656 ай бұрын
If you do enough improvising over time, you'll learn that what Joe said is quite the norm. It's about learning theory and you learn, even anticipate, what changes are likely coming up in any given tune. Yet many folks never develop improvising skills. My mom, an accomplished sight-reader for piano and organ, couldn't improvise worth a damn. Take her music away from her and she hadn't a clue what to do!
@luigizanellato29593 жыл бұрын
This is a real treasure. Shows how all styles can be improvised tastefully.
@stick3214 жыл бұрын
A true gentleman and a musician Mr. Joe Pass. RIP.
@valentinakaramazova10074 жыл бұрын
Holy shit Joe Pass playing over Bach
@WeirdBeach10 жыл бұрын
This footage is fucking priceless.
@KimchiSpringRoll3 жыл бұрын
Man the amount of fun they were having there.... I can only imagine
@dessonf23 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful improvisation from Joe !!! Legend
@jimpollicita39452 жыл бұрын
Great to see and hear this clip. Joe is at the peak of my Pyramid of Favorites. Unfortunately, after all these years, I have succeeded in looking like him more than playing like him!
@112358dave2 жыл бұрын
Had to pick my face up off the floor after hearing Joe’s lines. So great! Thank you for posting.
@docwill18410 жыл бұрын
George (pronounced horhay) Romero substituted for Williams on these tours to some extent. Sat ten feet from them in a church in Pismo Beach several months before Joe passed away from cancer. He was a little unsteady on his feet but played great as always;
@DeOmnibusDubitandum7611 ай бұрын
What a moving experience to see Joe Pass improvise over Bach's Chaconne, played by John Williams. A convergence of two of my main musical passions and influences in one setting. I love both on their own merits: the beauty of the sound palette coupled with the charming repertoire in the classical guitar, then the freedom and creativity of the jazz idiom. Beautiful!
@czgibson308610 жыл бұрын
Outstanding footage. Would love to see the whole film.
@guitarman67423 жыл бұрын
What a character Joe was. I sat next to him one night in Venice CA. He was smoking a cigar and listening to Joe DiOrio. The manager told him to put out the cigar...which Joe did after calling the guy a F...in' hippie.
@dansusan11 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. I was hoping a video like this existed. Joe Pass...what is there to say? Marvelous!!!!
@BeatsAndGuitars Жыл бұрын
We love you Joe and miss you. Thanks for all you gave us.
@Robbannno8 жыл бұрын
were is the rest of the video? damn I want more!
@keepdiggintheblues11 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, thanks for posting! Such tremendous talents all!
@royrich6 жыл бұрын
What a gem of a video !!
@geordieboy9336 Жыл бұрын
Loved this. Thanks for posting.
@merl03810 жыл бұрын
the best of the best of the best of the best period!
@MrEarldawkins4 ай бұрын
Amazing playing Joe Pass
@zdzislawrusin26207 жыл бұрын
po prostu dziekuje za jego gre na gitarze ... przenosi mnie.w I nny klimat
@jazzman1954 Жыл бұрын
Some great players here showing respect for each other’s abilities in their own particular department of guitar music.
@shaalis6 жыл бұрын
"Blues"...[plays anything but]
@Duxelles844 жыл бұрын
I know right! Lmao
@giothemath3 жыл бұрын
He bends a string once lol
@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ3 жыл бұрын
By "blues" they meant that he was playing lines over a minor blues progression. He's a classical player, so the point was less that he'd stylistically play "bluesy" and more that he could improvise in his aquired musical language over a progression that is considered to be from another dialect.
@curtrod3 жыл бұрын
@@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ blues is as blues does
@ianledesma35272 жыл бұрын
@@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ i'm like 99% sure they just labeled him wrong
@gitarwoman26 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this.
@theopaopa110 жыл бұрын
great joe pass, he wanted a horse and he got a guitar ...
@henrikduende4 жыл бұрын
ricardo moyano Im glad he did
@stlev993 жыл бұрын
Lucky us!
@benzonex3 жыл бұрын
Two of my teachers together: Paco and Joe 1990! Shortly thereafter Joe passed away...
@donnlarossa91733 жыл бұрын
Love my Pass Ibanez I heard he was never excited about it and it took a long time fir him to approve it with Ibanez
@richw.62966 жыл бұрын
Joe Pass is my Michael Jordan.
@gman43213 жыл бұрын
No, Michael Jordan is Joe Pass.
@GypsyFly10 жыл бұрын
lol joe killed it :D he is really true legend , PLZ give us more of this footafe please
@TheHerki6669 жыл бұрын
we want more!!!! please!!!
@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar Жыл бұрын
A bit of Bach's Chaconne in Dm (I think) on a loop, with Joe Pass having fun with it. I love his sense of humour
@MrDSchaller5 жыл бұрын
Unforgetable
@grruuuuuuuuuu8 жыл бұрын
(One can improvise over anything).... WAIT "Don't play some obscure Leo Brouwer piece.." hahahaha.
@richw.62964 жыл бұрын
Truly rare to see Joe Pass playing the JP20.
@tonybmusic11662 жыл бұрын
I studied with Joe from 1973-75 and went on to earn? a masters in music comp. Most of my college professors either hated jazz or at least didn’t respect it. One professor said: “isn’t it just a bunch of eleventh chords?” And later one of my piano students (if you do music for a living in California, you have to wear many hats or you wind up eating your kids) concurred…..yet later on, wanted to learn some jazz tunes. For some reason my grad school professors gave zero credibility to the art of improvisation yet in the late 18th century a prospective student would be required to improvise over a figured bass while being interviewed by a music teacher. So, I don’t know what happened in the intervening centuries but jazz or improvising over a set of harmonies or sonorities is no longer a respected musical genre. Musicians who have spent a lifetime improvising over the “Great American Songbook harmonies plus Giant Steps or Moments Notice can play over any chord changes.
@colonb32 жыл бұрын
Wow. Great improvisation.
@mitasaron273510 жыл бұрын
Joe is the man. Definitely! =)
@johnlindstrom99947 жыл бұрын
Just heard Martin Taylor. He didn't cite Pass as an influence. Strange! He cited piano players such as Evans.
@zu08325 жыл бұрын
That is wierd. I never heard Bill Evan's influence in Martin TTaylor. Maybe he just liked Evans
@Silverlining11114 ай бұрын
I’m glad that we can enjoy this in 2025. ❤
@user-dd6fm2tf2v3 жыл бұрын
rest in peace joe
@markharry1722 жыл бұрын
With regard to Paco Pena, he is playing a Fandangos de Huelva, which is in 12/8 time and very tricky to play and has one chord change that falls on a weak beat. Paco handles it effortlessly and I won't even get into the technique required to play the alzapua; those fast runs he played with the thumb!
@overtone_audio9 жыл бұрын
is there more of this?? wow man...
@GusPrzygora10 жыл бұрын
excelent. ThAnks for sharing!
@gxtmfa2 жыл бұрын
First 5 guys were who I grew up on. Hot damn. If you’re a guitarist’s guitarists, you know what’s up watching these guys speak.
@KennyTse15 жыл бұрын
ICONIC!!!!!!!
@raymondlaracuenta7462 жыл бұрын
Great guitar player!!
@mofoshrimp7 жыл бұрын
What a collection of talent... if only they had Paco de Lucia in there to top it off!!
@freddym2236 жыл бұрын
When i lived and played gigs in Los Angeles I went to joe's house a few times in the San Fernando Valley . I expected to see tons of guitars hanging from the walls and a mess of sheet music all over the place like my messy house . But no . just a gig bag with a gibson es 175 in it . he played out every nite , whether it was his gig or to sit in at a club . I wrote out an arrangement of a tune called "LOVE" that was well received at gigs i played . He took one look at it and said "that"s wrong . I crumpled up the paper and threw it in his waist basket and never played that tune again ! to this day i don't know what was wrong with it . 8-(
@rickjason2156 жыл бұрын
freddym223 You should have asked him. How do you learn if you don’t ask questions? Of course I would probably have done the same thing.
@conradopaulinoguitar10 жыл бұрын
wowwww, thanks for share!!
@Harbaksh12346 жыл бұрын
Beautiful X
@overtone_audio9 жыл бұрын
amazing stuff.
@rhysdrader9972 Жыл бұрын
Long live the music 🎶 🎵
@sumyunguy41503 жыл бұрын
That TONE!!!
@edwardsingleton22489 жыл бұрын
The Great Masters.
@cartnhorse5 жыл бұрын
More please! Is there more of this?
@gerrittenberkdeboer77633 ай бұрын
Pass is a music knowlege cosmos
@meekrob9 жыл бұрын
Never really thought of Kottke as a "blues" guitarist before, but whatever. Anybody know the name of the piece he was playing?
@srj344 жыл бұрын
"I Yell At Traffic" is the piece...I imagine the people putting this together weren't really sure how to categorize him. I've been a fan for 25 years and I'm still not sure myself, but it's gold nonetheless. At one of the shows I went to, Leo mentioned being part of this event and a discussion around blues came up. Joe Pass asked him about playing a 12-bar blues and Leo wanted to make sure he understood what Pass was asking. And he said, addressing Joe Pass, "So, if you start with an inverted one chord, and move on to a 6/9 five, and before you resolve to the tonic you move to a doubly diminished minor (apologies if I'm getting some of the jargon wrong, it's from memory of 17 years ago)..." And Pass interrupted playfully, saying, "Leo, if you don't get it now, you never will!"
@docwill18410 жыл бұрын
Can you post more of the concert footage or interviews?
@stratotega10 жыл бұрын
yea please upload more if you have them
@ebrahimalfardan88237 жыл бұрын
The whole thing please.
@melodiclines2990 Жыл бұрын
I really need to know how to improvise on guitar
@jay1024910 жыл бұрын
I would really appreciate info on where to purchase a copy of this complete video.
@livendihp87687 жыл бұрын
anyone can bring this video in full version please ?
@jeffcook327715 сағат бұрын
That ain't nuthin, I knew him 50 years ago, met him at Dante's on Monday, Guitar Night.
@Arianrhod6 Жыл бұрын
...somebody will probably now tell me that it did! :)
@edudzzaj8 жыл бұрын
Good old Joe, haha.
@jason-ow8cq8 жыл бұрын
ahhhh more!!!!!!!
@Blackjawreen8 жыл бұрын
After wes montgomery he was known as the best jazz guitar innovator of all time
@renjay37438 жыл бұрын
+Magatte Diagne Very different players. Both incredible but both very different. Ultimately Joe Pass had the better knowledge of the fretboard but then he lived a good bit longer so that would come as no surprise. Wes had a style that was so unique it would be hard to say he was anything other than unique.
@jsbrules3 жыл бұрын
“known”?? Any statement about musicians beginning with “known as the best” is bound to be, well, wrong. How about saying, “I think so and so is the best and some people agree with me”... but many others don’t
@VW4218 жыл бұрын
wish they hadn't cut it short and let Leo get in on it. WHERE'S THE REST OF THAT VIDEO PLEASE!
@robdeshane3216 жыл бұрын
Riffing off Chaconne....ridiculous and tremendous
@rwjazz12993 жыл бұрын
Joe is laughing a little bit, because he knows the guitar chords he's hearing are entirely diatonic.
@BernieHollandMusic2 жыл бұрын
Maybe - but when you get into the depths of the Chaconne - diatonic it certainly is not ! However, yes, this opening theme is just Dminor - Gminor6 -A7th - Dminor - repeated - and that is not at all difficult to improvise over. Hit the Road Joe ! John on the other hand has allowed himself to be trained to believe that he cannot improvise - I know - because he told me so.
@Ruvfua3 ай бұрын
La secuencia de improvisación con Pass es lamentable por parte de john Williams …Pass tiene pinta de estar pensando….este tío tocará mucho pero no sabe nada…..Williams es incapaz de crear un ambiente propicio para el solista….
@RavnerRavner3 жыл бұрын
did joe pass throw shade at leo Brouwer before blusing up Bach's chaconne?!?!
@BernieHollandMusic2 жыл бұрын
After all is said and done - it is a 4 bar blues
@liberosantavenere88903 жыл бұрын
Vaiii MO PASS..
@birdsunion32945 жыл бұрын
Legend
@reuelray3 жыл бұрын
That Leo guy ain't playing no blues. What are they doing? I shut it down after that. They lost all credibility...👎
@JosueSanchez-GT6 жыл бұрын
ooooooo Super!!!
@larryjohnson4509 жыл бұрын
Saw Leo Kottke 2 years ago in Ardmore, Ok. at the Goddard Center..still a good player but not what I remembered as a college student..never sings. Doesn't really need to.
@willae18 жыл бұрын
+Larry Johnson idk what albums u listened to but he was singing in them very early on, first one i know of is mudlark
@greatvanzini8 жыл бұрын
+Larry Johnson Yes I think he sang one or two as early as his 2nd LP. HE wasn't fond of his own deep rich voice which he said sounded, "like a goose fart on a muggy day" or something close to that.
@srj344 жыл бұрын
You mean a guy pushing 70 wasn't as technically proficient as he used to be? Well, I never.
@jimmaculate52 жыл бұрын
@@willae1 i had leo's Happy Feet record i believe it was called. he sang "Louise" with that distinctive voice. great.
@PigWrench10 жыл бұрын
not 30 years.... 2012 (posted) less 1990 = 22 years. musicians can count but math is beyond them, apparently, heh heh
@tmjcbs7 жыл бұрын
A few more years and the title will be right :-)
@ianledesma35272 жыл бұрын
@@tmjcbs yep :P
@bassplayer19663 жыл бұрын
NOW THAT IS BAD ASS!! IMPROVISATION BABAY!!
@aadityakiran_s3 жыл бұрын
Which DVD is this a part of? Is there a complete version somewhere?
@guitarsofold1003 жыл бұрын
Not to my knowledge it was recorded on VHS the day it was aired on Australian television..
@GuitarBySamMartinez Жыл бұрын
Cool
@jfdiaz286 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the piece that Kottke was playing????
@gitarwoman26 жыл бұрын
jfdiaz28 Don't know but I have Segovia playing it.
@srj344 жыл бұрын
It's called "I Yell At Traffic", and to Gia Murray, I doubt Segovia would have played it since the piece was released one year after he died. Unless you mean you'd like to have heard him play it...?