Meditation: Solo Guitar

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Meditation: Solo Guitar
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Live album by
ReleasedOctober 1, 2002
RecordedJanuary 30–February 1, 1992 at Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
Genre Jazz, Bop
Label Pablo
Producer Eric Miller
Joe Pass chronology
What Is There to Say
(2001)
Meditation: Solo Guitar
(2002)
Virtuoso in New York
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Meditation: Solo Guitar is a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, recorded in 1992 and released posthumously in 2002.

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Reception

Regarding Meditation, Jim Ferguson wrote (in JazzTimes): "In Pass' hands, no tune seemed to elude performance, and he tackled everything--from bebop numbers to waltzes to standards to Latin pieces--with astonishing ease and effectiveness, something that is amply evident throughout this set...highlights include a pensive rubato treatment of "Shadow Waltz," a slowly grooving "Mood Indigo" and a swinging "They Can't Take That Away From Me," whose title reflects a sentiment that applies to Pass' position at the very top of the list of the world's finest jazz guitarists." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Meditation (Meditação)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Norman Gimbel) – 4:52
  2. "Shadow Waltz" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:05
  3. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Barney Bigard) – 3:24
  4. "More Than You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose) – 3:52
  5. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar A. Swan) – 6:41
  6. "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:41
  7. "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) – 4:51
  8. "I'll Never Be The Same" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Gus Kahn) – 4:59
  9. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 3:54
  10. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:06
  11. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:29
  12. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42

Personnel

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