One of the best-selling jazz guitar albums up to 1974 was Joe Pass's Virtuoso. The jet black LP with Pass on the cover in shadow came out ahead of the December holidays and gave Norman Granz's Pablo label massive visibility. It also motivated a generation of young listeners to take up the jazz guitar. Now Craft Recordings has remastered and released the…
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