For Django [Import]

Joe Pass | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mvp Japan
• ASIN: B0000072T5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #824,900 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Django

2. Rosetta

3. Nuages

4. For Django

5. Night and Day

6. Fleur d'Ennui

7. Insensiblement

8. Cavalerie

9. Django's Castle

10. Limehouse Blues

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered reissue of the album that first appeared in 1964 where the jazz guitar master paid tribute to one of his heroes. Pass didn't so much imitate Reinhardt's style so much as he simply played his music in his (Pass's) own mellifluous style. The result is arguably the best of the famed guitarist's career. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Bebop Jazz Guitar Records!, February 27, 2000

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This review is from: For Django (Audio CD)

I am a professional jazz guitarist in NYC, who enjoys some, but not all of Joe Pass' records. Wes Montgomery is probably my favorite. However, this recording of Joe Pass is one of the most inspired, complete and impressive jazz guitar records there is! I wish every guitarist could make technically sophisticated, tasteful bebop playing sound this effortless. In fact, I'm sorry that most of Pass's weren't as good as this one. Enjoy.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Places Joe at the top!, November 10, 2004

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Stalwart Kreinblaster "SK2008" (Xanadu) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Django (Audio CD)

Alongside Tal Farlow and Wes Montgomery - Joe Pass is the most important jazz guitarist of the second half of the 20th century! Known primarily for his solo guitar work - this album should be a revelation to those not familiar with his bebop chops - and his efortless single-line playing - which bears some similarity to Mr. Farlow. Pass plays the music of the Django cannon - without imitating Django (a mistake quite a few guitarists have made!) but embracing a new style within the same framework. 'For Django' is also a song that deserves more attention - a possible jazz classic - I'm surprised more artists don't play it - it has almost as many possibilities as John Lewis's 'Django'! Anyway, I believe this album to be a landmark in jazz guitar - listen for yourself.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tribute doesn't mean to copy the model, March 26, 2007

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Django (Audio CD)

Here Joe Pass played a tribute to one of his heroes, Django Reinhardt without copying him. Why copy another musician? This would be really wrong! As a total master and an absolute artist himself, Joe knew what does it mean to have a personality in music (and WHY not to clone other musicians). So he tributed Django, maintaining his own personality and ideas. It needs an amateur to think that a giant like Joe Pass should pay a tribute to Django trying to sound like him, mimicking him. It is so ridicolous that it almost makes me laugh. A lot of guys who wrote bad reviews here probably are amateur Jazz musicians or casual listeners that judged superficially this album from Joe maybe expecting something near Django's gypsy Jazz. Nothing more wrong. Joe played himself here, think about it ... why copying Django from Joe's perspective? If one want to listen to Django's music, he should buy Django's records. Of course. You buy a Joe Pass record because you want to hear Joe Pass playing, maybe Django's compositions, but in Joe's own manner. This is absolutly obvious!! This is just the same spirit of jazz. Jazz is THIS thing. You don't buy a record from Oscar Peterson because you want to hear the songs written by Cole Porter for instance, but because you want to hear Oscar's interpretations of those songs. It is the spirit of Jazz. The musician is the most important thing in Jazz (not the material), his ideas, his personality. So even if I love Django I wouldn't want to hear Joe mimick Django. Tha one would be a really UN-artistic record, an horrible experience. I know that Joe is a MASTER musician, a musicians' musician himself and that he wouldn't do this for the world. He recorded a Charlie Parker tribute too, but he didn't sound exactly like Bird there just to make some uneducated listener happy. He expressed his love to Bird (like here he expressed his love to Django), Bird was one of his greatest influences, but he didn't copy him there, just like he did not copy Django in this album. So this is proudly a Joe Pass album. And one of his best I have to say. I love his solo efforts (the fourth is his best,... he played only the acoustic guitar, terrific ..) but I prefer his bebop sides. This is one of his best (another very good one is the live date Joyspring). His ideas are splendid here as they are always been by the way, his groove absolutly in shape, his harmonic conceptions wonderful. Moreover this disc has a wonderful balanced sound because there's another guitar in the rhytmic team, Joe Pisano. Another extremely talented player by the way ... but here the star is not Joe Pisano and is neither Django. The star is Joe Pass. Django is the one who, if he was alive, would like a lot this tribute and would understand completly why Joe sounded so different from him. Because Joe is a star as big as Django himself with a style strong as Django's. A wonderful album, finally remastered and with its original cover. I did buy the japanese edition and I am absolutly happy I did. An album that I will listen for the rest of my life (uh, I'm a pro Jazz guitarist, didn't I tell you?).