Joe Pass' Intercontinental
Travis Harrell
so), there is a Japanese reissue of the classic Joe Pass trio album
"Intercontinental" available at various sources - I got mine at Amazon
for $20. This CD is beautifully mixed (the bass and drums are very
clear) and features some of Pass' best playing IMO - very tasteful and
restrained lines. Trio members are Eberhard Weber (bass) and Kenny
Clare (drums).
I had this on vinyl (don't ask me what that is for God's sake) back in
the very early '70's but wore it out and haven't heard it for a
quarter century. What a pleasant surprise!
Travis
Ft. Worth, TX
For email, neuter my return address.
RG
albums of my youth. (Along with Martino's "El Hombre"). It's far and
away my favorite Joe Pass recording.
I wore my vinyl down to nothing within a year of the original
purchase. For the last few years I've occasionally listened to it via
a 2nd generation cassette copy, from a reel-to-reel copy I made in the
70s!
Fidelity aside, "I Love You" still swings as fresh and alive as it did
the first time I heard it. RIP, Joe. I love you.
Off to amazon now. Thanks.
-RG
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:18:52 GMT, Travis Harrell <oink...@flash.net>
wrote:
Lawson Stone
<oink...@flash.net> wrote:
> For those of you new to jazz guitar (say within the last decade or
> so), there is a Japanese reissue of the classic Joe Pass trio album
> "Intercontinental" available at various sources - I got mine at Amazon
> for $20. This CD is beautifully mixed (the bass and drums are very
> clear) and features some of Pass' best playing IMO - very tasteful and
> restrained lines. Trio members are Eberhard Weber (bass) and Kenny
> Clare (drums).
>
> I had this on vinyl (don't ask me what that is for God's sake) back in
> the very early '70's but wore it out and haven't heard it for a
> quarter century. What a pleasant surprise!
>
> Travis
> Ft. Worth, TX
>
>
> For email, neuter my return address.
>
>
Definitely one of my favorites. A wonderful session. For someone looking for
tunes and solos to transcribe, you can't beat "Stompin at Savoy" and "Lil
Darlin." Classic solos, not too hard, and really fun.
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Faizal Ali
heard this disc, but many consider it Joe's finest recording.
David Moss
Faizal Ali wrote...
> Does anyone know if there are any plans to reissue "For Django"? I've
never
> heard this disc, but many consider it Joe's finest recording.
4 of the 10 tracks from "For Django" are available on the compilation
"The Best of Joe Pass: Pacific Jazz Years": Django, Night and Day,
Fleur d'Ennui and Insensiblement
Keith Murch
thrilled to be able to get it again. It is a great album, but I have many of
Joe's CD's and I have recently discovered one that I like even more. It is a
very early live recording that has been issued under the title "Joy Spring".
I think Joe had a better sound on that recording, and being live, it is more
typical of the way he played when you saw him in a club. I always prefer
live recordings to studio recordings, for this reason (For example, how
about Wes on Full House or Smokin', compared to his studio albums?).
Keith Murch
Lawson Stone wrote in message <7s83sf$1g...@enews4.newsguy.com>...
Brian Ursell
"Faizal Ali" <f....@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are any plans to reissue "For Django"?
I've never
> heard this disc, but many consider it Joe's finest recording.
>
I have a CD reissue of "For Django" that is on some weird British
label. I found mine at a local record store, but some of the online
places seem to have it in stock. I don't know if this a bootleg or
not. Does anybody else here have this CD?
Brian
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Keith Murch <mu...@golden.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> I also listened to Intercontinental on vinyl in the old days, and was
> thrilled to be able to get it again. It is a great album, but I have many
of
> Joe's CD's and I have recently discovered one that I like even more. It is
a
> very early live recording that has been issued under the title "Joy
Spring".
> I think Joe had a better sound on that recording, and being live, it is
more
> typical of the way he played when you saw him in a club. I always prefer
> live recordings to studio recordings, for this reason (For example, how
> about Wes on Full House or Smokin', compared to his studio albums?).
> Keith Murch
Joy Spring is great!!! Shame though that Joe is terribly out of tune.
> >Definitely one of my favorites. A wonderful session. For someone looking
> for
> >tunes and solos to transcribe, you can't beat "Stompin at Savoy" and "Lil
> >Darlin." Classic solos, not too hard, and really fun.
A transcription of Intercontinental was sold by Rocky Press (?????) in the
80愀
Holger
Harry Avant
>I also listened to Intercontinental on vinyl in the old days, and was
>thrilled to be able to get it again. It is a great album, but I have many of
>Joe's CD's and I have recently discovered one that I like even more. It is a
>very early live recording that has been issued under the title "Joy Spring".
>I think Joe had a better sound on that recording, and being live, it is more
>typical of the way he played when you saw him in a club.
Gotta agree on this. Joy Spring, to me, is the best thing Pass ever
recorded.
Harry
Lawson Stone
<brian_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have For Django on CD, and it's a Japanese CD. Got it in the "Alternative"
bin at a used CD shop in Chicago. Paid $5
Jonathan Byrd
>
> I have a CD reissue of "For Django" that is on some weird British
> label. I found mine at a local record store, but some of the online
> places seem to have it in stock. I don't know if this a bootleg or
> not. Does anybody else here have this CD?
I have a Japanese rerelease of For Django. Liner notes in Kanji and
everything. Someone dutifully xeroxed the original English liner notes
onto neatly folded 8.5x11 paper, and slipped it in the jewel box!
The sound quality is excellent, and the music is killer. Cool, minimal,
backgrounds and Joe letting loose those long bebop lines just as clean
and fast as you please. The first time I heard Night And Day on that
CD, I thought, "No way! Maybe I'd better just stick to three-chord rock
and roll."
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j...@isu.edu Pocatello, Idaho, USA
D&D Wylie
>
> Does anyone know if there are any plans to reissue "For Django"? I've never
> heard this disc, but many consider it Joe's finest recording.
I have a Japanese release on an EMI/Pacific Jazz related label #TOCJ
5309. I am still looking for the other "sister" recording "Catch Me".
I've heard it on an old cassete and it's out of this world. Speaking of
these albums reminds me of an article in the last Downbeat where someone
was commenting that the 3 minute song is so unfashionable these days in
jazz whereas many of the classics were only this long. They gave Ben
Webster Body & Soul as one example. The tracks on For Django would be
another. Short but absolutely crafted and complete. I've said before in
this forum that, tho I admire Pass' solo work, it doesn't hold my
attention to listen to (any more than Martin Taylor's does) unless I can
see him on video or something. By contrast, his early 60's single
line/combo work is, for me, among the very, very best.
Any ideas about "Catch Me". I've looked just about everywhere I can
think.
Duncan
NZ
Galaxy1999
all amazingly beautiful and masterful recordings by Joe. I've been fortunate
enough to have found them all in their original vinyl pressings throughout the
years...another record to look for is accordionist Art Van Damme's "Blue World"
featuring Joe & the same rhythm section as "Intercontinental;" in fact these
two sessions were recorded weeks apart. Simply exquisite.
Rob.
Galax...@aol.com
Holger Weber
Galaxy1999 <galax...@aol.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
19990928021354...@ng-fa1.aol.com...
"Blue World" and "Keep Going" (same session) have been reissued on one CD.
MPS 529 093-2
Great stuff!
Holger
Karl G. Helmer
galax...@aol.com (Galaxy1999) wrote:
>"For Django," "Catch Me," "Joy Spring," "Simplicity," &
>"Intercontinental" are
>all amazingly beautiful and masterful recordings by Joe. I've been
>fortunate
>enough to have found them all in their original vinyl pressings
>throughout the
>years...another record to look for is accordionist Art Van Damme's "Blue
>World"
>featuring Joe & the same rhythm section as "Intercontinental;" in fact
>these two sessions were recorded weeks apart. Simply exquisite.
The only ones I'm missing from the above list is "For Django" and
"Catch Me". The other three easily make my top pick-a-number list.
When I first got
into jazz my guitar teacher insisted that I get "Virtuoso" which I
didn't care for at all. All of the out of time stuff really turned me
off. Then I picked up Duke's Big 4 and was completely
knocked out by Pass' playing. "Intercontinental" is worth every
cent of the import price IMHO.
But...while I'm sure that Pass is great on the van Damme album, it is
accordian after all... I think the last accordian album that I bought
was a group called "Lucky Seven" who were a great cajun/rockabilly/blues
band in the late '80's. Wonder what ever happened to them? (Their
guitarist was excellent, so this does tie in to this group)
Karl Helmer
greg clayton
day gigs.
PS Joe plays on accordian player Dick Continos'Live at the fabulous Flamingo' on
mercury records under his real name Passalaqua, but is introduced by Contino on the
record as Joe Pass. It's a strange one, late 50's vegas lounge music [sort of
wedding style or as we say in Montreal" Club Date music"] but you hear great
players playing the s... out of corny tunes and having fun in spite of that. Puts
complaining about less than perfect gigs in perspective for me anyway.
Greg
Galaxy1999 wrote:
> "For Django," "Catch Me," "Joy Spring," "Simplicity," & "Intercontinental" are
> all amazingly beautiful and masterful recordings by Joe. I've been fortunate
> enough to have found them all in their original vinyl pressings throughout the
> years...another record to look for is accordionist Art Van Damme's "Blue World"
> featuring Joe & the same rhythm section as "Intercontinental;" in fact these
> two sessions were recorded weeks apart. Simply exquisite.
>
> Rob.
> Galax...@aol.com
Ybotha
I don't know what happened after that, but Oscar Peterson and Norman Grantz
certainly didn't help matters...
A friend of mine once saw Pass in the 80s and he said to the audience when
they reacted enthusiastically to him "Where were you people back in the 60s
when I could really play?"
Lawson Stone
(Ybotha) wrote:
Be aware, though, that Joe's humor was ALWAYS self-effacing. In 1960, I bet
he would have said "where were all of you back in the 50's when I could
really play." Don't let Joe's self deprecating humor fool you. He enjoyed
what he did and was feisty enough to tell Normal Granz and Oscar Peterson to
shove it if he didn't want to do something.