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This is the 3rd video teaching the style of Joe Pass within the Jazz Guitarist's Signature Series. Each jazz guitar lesson in this collection explores the improvisational style of an influential artist. This is done with a short transcribed phrase, most likely played over a reoccurring harmonic cadence (eg. II-V-I).

About Joe Pass (Joseph Anthony Passalaqua ): He was born on January 13,1929 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His dad, an Italian steel-worker bought him his first guitar at age 9 and urged him to learn tunes and improvise by ear after witnessing the youngster's early musical tendencies.
After recording several cds for the Pacific Jazz and World Pacific labels throughout the 60's, Pass was signed by Norman Granz, the producer of Jazz at the Philharmonic and creator of Verve Records to his brand-new Pablo Records label in 1970. In 1974, Pass launched his now classic solo album Virtuoso. This initial recording together with the whole collection that followed, has actually redefined the art of solo jazz guitar. As a result of these solo recordings and shows, Pass finally achieved the notoriety he deserved and was consistently noted in allure polls every year. Throughout this same period at Pablo, he taped a set of commonly well-known guitar/vocal duet records with Ella Fitzgerald.