Joe Pass's Virtuoso (Pablo, 1974) was a milestone: not only was it a terrific CD, it was also the first solo jazz guitar record that was worth listening to all the way through. Pass melded the ...

Joe Pass was born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Pass was born into a blue-collar non-musical family and began to play the guitar when he was 9. The ...

Joe Pass’ original tune “Blues For Alican” is the only blues cut to appear on the album. It is obvious that Pass was a fan of a contemporary guitar virtuoso, John Fahey.

Dailey Pike didn’t come to Los Angeles in 1979 to make documentary movies. His life was stand-up comedy; he was on a first-name basis with Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall. He warmed up TV audiences ...

With guitarist, Joe Pass, pianist, Mike Wofford, drummer, Earl Palmer, and bass, Keter Betts. In a concert live from the Maine Center for the Arts, opening this fourth season of the 1989-90 season ...

Jazz guitar virtuoso Joe Pass, who played with such legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Oscar Peterson, has died of liver cancer at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 65.