Joe Pass
guitar
American jazz guitarist known for his solo playing; in his Almeria speech Barry is asked about him, and answers about guitarists in general.
- mentions
- 4
- recordings
- 2
- Barry speaking
- 2
What Barry says
Asked in the Almeria speech about Joe Pass and Peter Bernstein, Barry names only Bernstein in his answer and speaks of the guitarists together: they are good and can play, but they do not know the scale of chords unless they have been in his class, and guitarists ought to be able to play that scale.
In his own words
They’re good... but they don’t know about the scale of chords. They do not know it, I’m telling you, unless they’ve been in my class.
Every mention
4 moments in the recordings, 2 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Believe: a talk to musicians
- 50:54
Speaker unclear
In the question time, someone asks Barry what he thinks of Joe Pass (caption ‘Jo Joe Pass’) and Peter Bernstein.
- 51:30
Answering, says such guitarists can play but lack the scale of chords unless they took his class.
- 52:05
Grants that ‘those guys’ were good guitar players before turning to Bernstein.
Jazz GUITAR Reflections on BARRY HARRIS
- 50:34
A student
A guitarist from Barry’s workshops says Barry’s exercises made his Parker and Joe Pass studies fit together.
In the interviews and notes
A forum member notes that over a II-V Parker dropped the II, that Joe Pass and many others followed him in this, as Pass says on video, and that this is among the things Barry teaches.
Another member observes that for single-note playing Barry, like Joe Pass, prefers to simplify the harmony to free the player, talking less about minor-sixth-diminished elaborations over G7 than about plain G7 and D-flat 7.
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After a member shows how Barry’s way of thinking reduces a progression such as How High the Moon to tonic and dominant chords for soloing, another replies that Joe Pass broke it down the same way: tonic and dominant were all he worried about.
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Having started out as a chord-substitution player, one member found that Barry’s approach fitted the language of Bird and Bud better, while the chord-based approach suits the great straight-ahead guitarists, Joe Pass among them.
jazzguitar.be members (usernames kept per post), Harris vs Haque... please set me straight? ¶29
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.
- 1.4Triplets and thinking in six3
- 11.1Two hands together3
- 11.2Keep the left hand low and make it interesting3
- 12.2Know the song; learn many songs; find your key3
- 2.2The two whole-tone scales (‘man and woman’)3
- 2.3The three diminished seventh chords (‘the children’)3
- 8.3Four dominants from every diminished chord3
- 8.6The diminished scale as diminished chord + four dominant roots3