Virtuoso Live!
Live album by
Joe Pass
Released1991
RecordedSeptember 13–15, 1990
VenueVine Street Bar & Grill, Hollywood, California
GenreJazz
Length51:45
LabelPablo
ProducerEric Miller
Joe Pass chronology
Duets
(1991) 		Virtuoso Live!
(1991) 		Live at Yoshi's
(1992)

Virtuoso Live! is a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1991. It was reissued in 1995 by Original Jazz Classics.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "Through it all, Pass shows that he is one of the few guitarists who never needed other instrumentalists in order to form a complete group sound. Recommended."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf) – 4:53
  2. "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel) – 3:10
  3. "Eric's Smoozie Blues" (Pass) – 5:10
  4. "Beautiful Love" (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) – 4:13
  5. "Daquilo Que Eu Sei" (Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins) – 4:29
  6. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 4:34
  7. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:34
  8. "Mack the Knife" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein) – 6:13
  9. "So What's New?" (Peggy Lee, John Pisano) – 8:48
  10. "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 4:41

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Virtuoso Live! > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1132. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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