Chops

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Joe Pass | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YZF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,174 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly excellent playing from both Pass and Petersen, August 29, 2005

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Michael L. Rogers "physicist guitarist" (Los Alamos, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chops (Audio CD)

I have all Virtuoso CDs but only a few of his small group recordings. (I'd like to buy some of his 60's recordings as I hear they are excellent.) I got this CD because I have a book of guitar transcriptions of some of his Virtuoso solos and the only one that wasn't from the Virtuoso CDs was the version of "Your Own Sweet Way" from this album. I love that song so I got the CD to help me learn the transcription. I had never bought "Chops" before because I was afraid that, given the title, it might be too much of a self-indulgent excersize in seeing who could play Charlie Parker lines faster. But I was quite pleasantly surprised. While the technical playing of both Pass and Petersen are top-notch here, so is the overall musicianship. They play wonderfully together with great empathy, subtlety and imagination as well as fantastic "chops". So the title may be a bit misleading. This album isn't just about technical proficiecy but rather about two fantastic musicians making great music together. (While also displaying amazing "chops".) I recommend it highly.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Sympatico Musicians, January 31, 2006

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Fred Tregaskis "Jazz Aficianado" (Chattanooga TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chops (Audio CD)

Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen are the two best on jazz guitar and acoustic bass, respectively, who ever lived. To hear them together, and the operative word is "together" is a treat all too rare for jazz lovers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incomparable duo., November 23, 2008

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L. D. Bradshaw (Shropshire,England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chops (Audio CD)

The music which has been left to us by these two great and unique musicians inspires one with awe not only at their technical brilliance but also their seemingly effortless spontenaity.They bring into being wonderful interplay in an aura of quiet intimacy without so much as one superfluous note.
All the pieces are superb but highlights include a marvelous "£5 Blues" (apt when one considers that the record was made in London in 1978!);a stunning exposition of Oscar Pettiford s ingeniously-constructed "Tricrotism" and delightful latinesque effects on "Quiet Nights".
Pass provides some technical insight into the music in the accomanying notes butthey seem to be incongrous in the light of such sublime artistry.