Joe Pass

Joe Pass (lahir Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; 13 Januari 1929 – 23 Mei 1994) adalah seorang gitaris jazz Amerika. Pass terkenal karena karyanya yang berasal dari berbagai kolaborasi dengan pianis Oscar Peterson dan vokalis Ella Fitzgerald, dan sering digembar-gemborkan sebagai salah satu gitaris jazz paling unik dan terkenal di abad ke-20. Pass lahir di New Brunswick, New Jersey, pada 13 Januari 1929. Ayahnya, Mariano Passalaqua, lahir di Sisilia. Pass mendapatkan pekerjaan sebagai pemain sejak usia 14 tahun. Dia bermain dengan band yang dipimpin oleh Tony Pastor dan Charlie Barnet, mengasah keterampilan gitarnya sambil mempelajari seluk-beluk industri musik. Dia mulai bepergian dengan grup jazz kecil dan pindah dari Pennsylvania ke New York City. Dalam beberapa tahun, Pass mengembangkan kecanduan heroin. Dia pindah ke New Orleans selama setahun dan bermain bebop di klub tari telanjang. Pass mengungkapkan kepada Robert Palmer dari Rolling Stone bahwa dia menderita "gangguan saraf" di New Orleans "karena [dia] memiliki akses ke segala jenis obat-obatan di sana dan terjaga selama berhari-hari [...] [dia] sering datang ke New York, lalu terikat dan pergi." Pass menghabiskan sebagian besar tahun 1950-an keluar masuk penjara karena tuduhan terkait narkoba. Dalam wawancara Rolling Stone yang sama, Pass mengatakan, "tetap bersemangat adalah prioritas utama saya; bermain adalah prioritas kedua; perempuan adalah prioritas ketiga. Namun hal pertama benar-benar menghabiskan seluruh energi saya." Dia pulih setelah dua setengah tahun mengikuti program rehabilitasi Synanon. Pass sebagian besar menghentikan musik selama hukuman penjaranya. Pass merekam serangkaian album pada tahun 1960-an untuk Pacific Jazz Records, termasuk Catch Me, 12-String Guitar, For Django, dan Simplicity. Pada tahun 1963, ia menerima Penghargaan Bintang Baru dari majalah DownBeat. Dia juga bermain di rekaman Pacific Jazz oleh Gerald Wilson, Bud Shank, dan Les McCann. Dia melakukan tur dengan George Shearing pada tahun 1965. Selama tahun 1960-an, dia melakukan sebagian besar pekerjaan sesi TV dan rekaman di Los Angeles. Norman Granz, produser Jazz di Philharmonic dan pendiri Verve Records, menandatangani Pass ke Pablo Records pada bulan Desember 1973. Pada tahun 1974, Pass merilis album solonya Virtuoso di Pablo. Juga pada tahun 1974, Pablo merilis album The Trio with Pass, Oscar Peterson, dan Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Dia tampil bersama mereka dalam banyak kesempatan sepanjang tahun 1970an dan 1980an. Pada Grammy Awards tahun 1975, The Trio memenangkan Grammy Award untuk Penampilan Jazz Terbaik oleh Grup. Sebagai bagian dari daftar Pablo, Pass direkam dengan Benny Carter, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Zoot Sims, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, dan Count Basie. Pass dan Ella Fitzgerald merekam enam album bersama di Pablo menjelang akhir karir Fitzgerald: Take Love Easy (1973), Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976), Hamburg Duets - 1976 (1976), Sophisticated Lady (1975, 1983), Speak Love (1983), dan Easy Living (1986). ... Sumber: Artikel "Joe Pass" dari Wikipedia dalam bahasa Inggris, berlisensi CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass is well known for his work stemming from numerous collaborations with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, and is often heralded as one of the most unique and notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century. Pass was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on January 13, 1929. His father, Mariano Passalaqua, was born in Sicily. Pass found work as a performer as early as age 14. He played with bands led by Tony Pastor and Charlie Barnet, honing his guitar skills while learning the ropes in the music industry. He began traveling with small jazz groups and moved from Pennsylvania to New York City. Within a few years, Pass developed an addiction to heroin. He moved to New Orleans for a year and played bebop at strip clubs. Pass revealed to Robert Palmer of Rolling Stone that he had suffered a "nervous breakdown" in New Orleans "because [he] had access to every kind of drug there and was up for days [...] [he] would come to New York a lot, then get strung out and leave." Pass spent much of the 1950s in and out of prison for drug-related convictions. In the same Rolling Stone interview, Pass said, "staying high was my first priority; playing was second; girls were third. But the first thing really took all my energy." He recovered after a two-and-a-half-year stay in the Synanon rehabilitation program. Pass largely put music on hiatus during his prison sentence. Pass recorded a series of albums during the 1960s for Pacific Jazz Records, including Catch Me, 12-String Guitar, For Django, and Simplicity. In 1963, he received DownBeat magazine's New Star Award. He also played on Pacific Jazz recordings by Gerald Wilson, Bud Shank, and Les McCann. He toured with George Shearing in 1965. During the 1960s, he did mostly TV and recording session work in Los Angeles. Norman Granz, the producer of Jazz at the Philharmonic and the founder of Verve Records, signed Pass to Pablo Records in December 1973. In 1974, Pass released his solo album Virtuoso on Pablo. Also in 1974, Pablo released the album The Trio with Pass, Oscar Peterson, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. He performed with them on many occasions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. At the Grammy Awards of 1975, The Trio won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Group. As part of the Pablo roster, Pass recorded with Benny Carter, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Zoot Sims, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie. Pass and Ella Fitzgerald recorded six albums together on Pablo toward the end of Fitzgerald's career: Take Love Easy (1973), Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976), Hamburg Duets - 1976 (1976), Sophisticated Lady (1975, 1983), Speak Love (1983), and Easy Living (1986). ... Source: Article "Joe Pass" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.