Joe Pass - Intercontinental [25]

Title: Joe Pass - Intercontinental
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970, Jazz, Bop, New Brunswick, New Jersey 11/26
Matrix #: MB 20738
Condition: VG (LM) | Members: Joe P (29' - 94') | Producer: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Cultural Facts: [25]

1. Recorded in the Black Forest: Intercontinental was cut at MPS's studio in Villingen, Germany, with producer Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, the same room that captured a run of pristine 1970s jazz for the German label.
2. A Trio with Eberhard Weber: Bassist Eberhard Weber, later a ECM pillar, anchors this trio with drummer Kenny Clare. Hearing Weber in a straight swinging Pass date shows how wide his early work went before the ambient ECM sound.
3. From Heroin to Concord Jazz Royalty: Pass fought a long heroin addiction in the 1950s and early 60s that stalled his career. By the time MPS and later Pablo/Concord were recording him, he had become the gold-standard bebop guitarist for a generation of players.