Virtuoso No. 4

Virtuoso No. 4
Studio album by
Joe Pass
Released1983
RecordedNovember 11, 26 and 30, 1973
StudioMGM Recording Studios, Los Angeles
GenreJazz
Length103:12
LabelPablo
ProducerNorman Granz
Joe Pass chronology
Eximious
(1982) 		Virtuoso No. 4
(1983) 		Speak Love
(1983)

Virtuoso No. 4 is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was recorded in 1973 and released in 1983.

It was re-issued in 1993 on CD with three additional tracks ("Weaselocity", "Blues for Pete", and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"). Virtuoso No. 4 differs from the three previous Virtuoso releases in that it is performed on acoustic guitar instead of electric (with the exception of "Indian Summer").

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "The relatively little-known set finds the guitarist sounding very much like a self-sufficient orchestra, and although his tone is necessarily softer on acoustic than electric, he swings hard on the uptempo pieces."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:55
  2. "Indian Summer" (Victor Herbert, Al Dubin) – 3:16
  3. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 5:40
  4. "Yesterday" (Lennon–McCartney) – 4:24
  5. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 3:46
  6. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 6:18
  7. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Mercer) – 3:37
  8. "My Shining Hour" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:25
  9. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:55
  10. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 3:21
  11. "Weaselocity" (Joe Pass) – 6:54
  12. "Acoustic Blues" (Pass) – 6:46
  13. "I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) – 4:10
  14. "It's a Wonderful World" (Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson) – 3:20
  15. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 7:03
  16. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:47
  17. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 4:03
  18. "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 4:46
  19. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 6:57
  20. "Blues for Pete" (Pass) – 3:21
  21. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 5:28

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Virtuoso No. 4 > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 159. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1132. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.