JOE PASS

================================================================Guitarist Joe Pass has been on the scene since the 1940s.
A veteran of countless sessions with a wide selection of musicians: Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Gerald Wilson, Les McCann, Earl Bostic and Duke Ellington.
A sensitive lyrical soloist with war and sonorous tone, Pass can also sound like a full rhythm section in accompaniment.

An album with another veteran guitarist, Herb Ellis, finds the two men plaiting melody and counter-melody, and showing great empathy in interplay on numbers like Cherokee (Two For The Road).
A duet with Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass) is relaxed and melodic, while the collaboration with Oscar Peterson reaches a more demanding artistic peak with both players at full stretch.
Great album with Peterson (Porgy & Bess) has pass dispatching rhythm duties until his solo outing on They Pass By Singing.

In later years, the guitarist expressed a preference for solo performance, with two of his finest albums, Joe Pass, Virtuoso 1 & 2.
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