Editing Joe Pass (section)

{{Short description|American jazz guitarist (1929–1994)}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Joe Pass
| background        = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| image             = Joe Pass (jazz) (cropped).jpg
| image_size        = 300
| landscape         = no
| caption           = Pass in 1975
| birth_name        = Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1929|1|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], U.S.
| origin            = [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1994|5|23|1929|1|13|mf=y}}
| death_place       = [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| genre             = [[Jazz]]
| occupation        = [[Guitarist]], [[composer]]
| instrument        = [[Guitar]]
| years_active      = 1943–1994
| label             = [[Pacific Jazz Records|Pacific Jazz]], [[Concord Records|Concord]], [[Pablo Records|Pablo]]
| associated_acts   = [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
}}

'''Joe Pass''' (born '''Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua'''; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American [[jazz]] guitarist.<ref name="Holder2006">{{cite book|last=Holder|first=Mitch|title=The Jazz Guitar Stylings of Howard Roberts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9GRIUU83C8C&pg=PA2|access-date=22 November 2011|date=16 January 2006|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-0-7866-7409-1|page=2}}</ref><ref name="LLC1979">{{cite journal|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|journal=Newyorkmetro.com.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--ACAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62|access-date=23 November 2011|date=17 September 1979|publisher=New York Media, LLC|page=62|issn=0028-7369}}</ref> Although Pass recorded and performed live with pianist [[Oscar Peterson]], composer [[Duke Ellington]], and vocalist [[Ella Fitzgerald]], he is generally esteemed as one of the most notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century for his solo guitar playing, found on recordings such as [[Virtuoso (Joe Pass album)|''Virtuoso'']].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=The Great Jazz Guitarists |date=April 1, 2013 |publisher=Backbeat Books |page=148 }}</ref>