Virtuoso (Joe Pass album)

Virtuoso is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, released in 1973. Despite only having one original composition ("Blues for Alican"), it is widely considered to be his best album, as well as one of the best jazz guitar albums. All About Jazz described it as "...the recording to announce that Joe Pass had arrived", and said that he had "...accomplished, using standard guitar performance techniques, to play lead melody lines, chords, and bass rhythm simultaneously and at tempo, giving the listener the impression that multiple guitars were being played".^[3]

The remaster uses 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology and also includes liner notes by Benny Green.

Virtuoso outsold nearly every other release in the Pablo catalog and established Pass as the premier mainstream jazz guitarist of the time.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 3:32
2. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:10
3. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:36
4. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) 5:17
5. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) - 4:59
6. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 3:37
7. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) - 4:09
8. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:42
9. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 3:38
10. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 4:01
11. "Blues for Alican" (Joe Pass) - 5:29
12. "The Song Is You" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 4:34

Personnel

• Joe Pass – guitar

Chart positions

References