Joe Pass: I Remember Charlie Parker (what kind of guitar)?
Jonathan (not from Cleveland)
Pass album "I Remember Charlie Parker,"
and it sounds like he is playing a classical guitar (which would seem
a bit improbable).
If he is playing an archtop, he's getting a really incredible tone...
If anyone happens to know what gear he used on this recording (guitar,
strings, amp), I'd be very interested.
Or at least an educated guess :)
Thanks,
Jonathan
Bill C
IIRC I think I read somewhere that Joe Pass used a Borys nylon string
for recording at some point ...
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He played a classical guitar on a few different recordings. Songs for
Ellen is another one where he played a classical guitar.
Jonathan (not from Cleveland)
Interesting.
I guess I need to listen to more of his recordings.
To me, his tone sounds a million times better on this track than on
the ones where I've heard him use an archtop.
I wonder what his thoughts were on the matter.
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He played a number of different guitars, mostly archtops. I think the
ES-175 was pretty much his signature sound as on Intercontinental. He
played a Fender Jaguar early on too. Most of his later live stuff was
on the Ibanez signature which sounded a bit thinner than the ES 175.
He played other archtops too at various times.
oscard
I had that playing my car on the way to work too and I was thinking
the same, that sure sounds like nylon strings! Nice album, great
playing.
tomb...@jhu.edu
> Pass album "I Remember Charlie Parker,"
> and it sounds like he is playing a classical guitar (which would seem
> a bit improbable).
That's a nylon string. Joe cut three entire solo guitar albums on
nylon string guitars.
Jonathan (not from Cleveland)
Do you happen to know the names of the other two?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Fred
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<gosto.do.vio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 6:38 pm, "tombr...@jhu.edu" <tombr...@jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 4, 8:36 am, "Jonathan (not from Cleveland)"
>
> > <gosto.do.vio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This morning I was listening to the track "Just Friends" on the Joe
> > > Pass album "I Remember Charlie Parker,"
> > > and it sounds like he is playing a classical guitar (which would seem
> > > a bit improbable).
>
> > That's a nylon string. Joe cut three entire solo guitar albums on
> > nylon string guitars.
>
> Do you happen to know the names of the other two?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Here are the recordings with Pass on nylon string AFAIK. There might
be more.
Songs for Ellen
Unforgettable ( same session as Songs for Ellen but a separate
release)
I Remember Charlie Parker
He plays a nylon string on a few selected tracks on the duo records
with Ella.
( Take Love Easy has at least one track with JP on nylon string) There
are other tracks with Ella where JP plays a nylon string but I don't
know the titles offhand.
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I think " You Took Advantage of Me" is one where he plays nylon
string. You could do a search to see which of the Fitzgerald/Pass
records that one is on.
Jonathan (not from Cleveland)
> On Nov 4, 6:38 pm, "tombr...@jhu.edu" <tombr...@jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 4, 8:36 am, "Jonathan (not from Cleveland)"
>
> > <gosto.do.vio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This morning I was listening to the track "Just Friends" on the Joe
> > > Pass album "I Remember Charlie Parker,"
> > > and it sounds like he is playing a classical guitar (which would seem
> > > a bit improbable).
>
> > That's a nylon string. Joe cut three entire solo guitar albums on
> > nylon string guitars.
>
> Do you happen to know the names of the other two?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Thanks
Jonathan (not from Cleveland)
Thanks
tomb...@jhu.edu
<gosto.do.vio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 6:38 pm, "tombr...@jhu.edu" <tombr...@jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 4, 8:36 am, "Jonathan (not from Cleveland)"
>
> > <gosto.do.vio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This morning I was listening to the track "Just Friends" on the Joe
> > > Pass album "I Remember Charlie Parker,"
> > > and it sounds like he is playing a classical guitar (which would seem
> > > a bit improbable).
>
> > That's a nylon string. Joe cut three entire solo guitar albums on
> > nylon string guitars.
>
> Do you happen to know the names of the other two?
I was thinking of Songs for Ellen and Unforgettable. Both are from the
same session, a year or two before Joe died, and were released by
Pablo. They are really good records. Everyone always cites the
Virtuoso record, but I think Joe continued to develop as a solo
guitarist, and these recordings twenty years after Virtuoso are among
his best solo work. Unless you like the flashy chops, in which case go
with the earlier stuff.