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Joe Pass

(1929–1994) Guitarist United States

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Joe Pass was a guitarist from the United States, best known for Jazz Lines.

Quick Facts About Joe Pass

Born: January 13, 1929
Died: May 23, 1994
Nationality: United States
Profession: Guitarist
Notable works: Jazz Lines

About Joe Pass

Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist. Pass recorded and performed live with pianist Oscar Peterson, composer Duke Ellington, and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, and he is generally esteemed as one of the most notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century for his solo guitar playing, found on recordings such as Virtuoso.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Joe Pass

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one…

Chords

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Listen, listen, listen.

Funny

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You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on…

Collections

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If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

Guitar

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I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half…

Afternoon

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Learn everything you know in all keys.

Education

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I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a…

Enjoy

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Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or…

Able

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Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Drug

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I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Charlie

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If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.

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