This video is about greatest Joe Pass experiencing new sound of synthesizer GR700 for a first time. "Stella by starlight", sorry for sound quality and all interaptions because technical difficulties...
Abel Bou Mayorgas I thought he didn’t like the organ sound, it was when they switched it to more of a phasered guitar/fender Rhodes sound that made him start smiling and change how he was playing
That was in 1985, so guitar synth was at the beginning in new wave music and great mine of his ingenious was curious as been pioneer in jazz proof one more time how humble and human this man was. It was a privilege to be his friend. I never forget.
You guys are all wrong... Elisha Gray in 1876, created what is generally considered the 1st Synthesizer. Although not really a Musical Instrument. This was followed, in 1897... by Thaddeus Cahill with the Telharmonium. Next, both the Ondes Martenot & the Theremin were in 1928. The Warbo Orgel was developed by Harald Bode in '37. The Hammond Novachord showed up in '39. Through the '40s & '50s we had the Solovox, Multimonica, Ondioline, and Clavioline. Notably Hugh Le Caine invented the Electronic Sackbut between '45 & '48. Then there was the RCA Mark 2 in 1958. It was after this point that Dr. Moog took over, around '63. He unarguably shaped what the term "Synthesizer" meant. But he was certainly building on what came prior.
Never seen a musician so enveloped by his musicality at every moment, such beautiful chord structures-immense knowledge and skill.-really miss him.Hope he’s happy.
that is hilarious... see joe smile when the sound changed to organ? wow, the he adapted his playing to sound more like an organ player. thanks for posting this unique clip of joe pass.
It’s kind of funny to see Joe Pass playing one of these guitars. I always picture him with a much more traditional hollow body or the Fender Jaguar from the earlier albums. Regardless of that, if you close your eyes, you can still hear his musical fingerprints no matter how the sound is manipulated on the guitar!
Joe was really cool about that kind of stuff apparently. Same thing with Oscar Peterson with synth keys. All about the advancement of music and unfamiliar territory
@@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ Steve Swallow said that Roy Haynes was totally accepting of his switch to electric bass. I feel like all musicians and areas of musical endeavor should stay open to new technology, since even the simplest non vocal instrument relies on quite a bit of technology even if just mechanical technology.
@@rillloudmother these are all guys that would likely argue that any music, even the music they don't necessarily like or listen to, is valid as long as it comes from your own musical "voice" and is made with love
@@PANDORAZTOYBOKZ sorry to pop your bubble but Joe has expressed quite a number of times, for his dislike of modern music, the dislike of the guitar playing of the 70s-80s, with all the wahwahs and so on.
Amazing, thank you for sharing this! Mr. Joe Pass is who got me into jazz guitar. I heard him on the jazz radio station one night and was like, "Who is that?!" Stellar guitarist, thanks again for uploading this!
That was so awesome! Probably the best solo jazz player ever. From 1:40 on it got so cool with the organ sound. He looked like he was into it. Thanks for that.
Very interesting piece of history! I seem to remember that I saw great guitarist Mark Woods play one of these live with the band Sunwind (who were amazing) back in the late 80's and he was getting amazing sounds from it. This and the Synthaxe were way ahead of their time imho - just a shame they looked so weird and were so expensive for the average player.
I had a gr700 in 85. I loved it. I played in a trio with keyboard, left hand keyboard bass, guitar and drums. It added so much to the sound but you really had to play cleanly or you'd produce glitches.
You rite, glitches was produced because it was completely deferent way of playing on this guitar from normal guitar and Joe was trying to get used to it but even so he was just enjoy of this new technology at this time
Wow I've heard of Joe Pass before, and now I see why I've heard of him. Super talent, clean, melodic, world class. Thanks for posting, much appreciated : )
@@3158030Michael I learned more in 3 weeks than I did in 6 months. He was a great guy, I would have continued, but my family left California to go back to the east coast
To hear that guitar synth glitch out at one point while JOE PASS is playing it, makes me feel a little bit better about all the glitches I got while playing one of those.
Wow... What a great piece of video... The great Joe Pass smiling from all the different sounds coming out of his axe... Reminds me of how I first felt when I plugged my Godin MIDI guitar into my GR-55 pedal... What a great moment caught on video... Historic footage...
Thanks for this Michael. Joe has very interesting harmonic progressions with the last sound. One can see he enjoys it, finally. Owning a Roland guitar synth I know too well they can be a bitch if you don't adjust your playing to the different sounds.
I use a vst called Midi Guitar by Jam Origin, developers out of Denmark, I think. With it, your guitar notes are translated to midi and you can play any virtual instrument. Although it is not perfect, it is quite up there compared to other guitar - 2-midi solutions. It is polyphonic and, one of the things I like the most, you can use it with any guitar.
people really forget these roland guitars and basses do look odd, but are super comfortable to play:they are light (compared to a Les Paul) and the neck is thick like a baseball bat but somehow super comfy, the bar on top gives it a ton of sustain :) they are japanese made and only a few thousands were made :D #ownOne
Michael, can you please tell about the circumstances where this happend and what were the reasons you did film this? This is a great clip and i wished it was a hour longer! Best wishes from Bernd, Germany
The best part is when, after G7alt, he plays chromatic voicings almost randomly for some seconds before C-.... For a second he looks to me like a normal guitarist
