Joe Pass' Hot Licks DVD, "The Blues Side Of Jazz". (sale price $19.95) explores the blues elements of jazz guitar. Joe covers bebop blues, new chord substitutions, pedal tones, jazz/blues improvisation and much more. As usual, Joe brings wit and style to his invaluable guitar lessons, taking you straight to the heart of the “blue” side of jazz guitar. The Hot Licks DVDs allow you to see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played. Hotlicks also employs the helpful split-screen effects. Hot Licks makes learning easy with right and left hand techniques shown in close up and slow motion segments. I first heard Joe Pass play on the Pablo Records LP “Portraits of Duke Ellington”. I worked out many of his licks on “I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart”, “Don't Get Around Much Anymore “ and “Solitude”. I worked them out by ear slowing the turntable down to 16. I have since found many of these licks to be “wrong” but surprisingly many are correct. I met Joe Pass at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis, MD around 1990 and he consented to do a session for me on a recording with vocalist Juanita Williams singing “I’m Still In Love With You”, (T-Bone Walker). He agreed to do it in exchange for an undisclosed amount of cash, a pizza and most importantly a cassette dub of the final mixes of Danny Gatton live at the Roxy. He was a huge Danny Gatton fan. I think of Joe Pass in the same category with Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian as the iconic, jazz guitarists of the 20th Century. Joe Pass was a sideman with Louis Bellson, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, Della Reese, Johnny Mathis, Benny Carter, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Zoot Sims, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, and others. The series of Joe Pass, solo albums, "Virtuoso" (volumes 1 through 4), is a must-have for any guitarist. "The Trio" featuring Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, won a Grammy award for best jazz performance. Epiphone has produced an edition of the Emperor line of semi-acoustic Guitar in Joe Pass' honor. Ed Eastridge 2006 |
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