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Released
  
1982

Eximious (1982)
  
Virtuoso No. 4 (1983)

Release date
  
1982

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Length
  
47:32 (reissue)

Artist
  
Joe Pass

Label
  
Pablo Records

Genre
  
Bebop

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Recorded
  
May 25 and July 8, 1982

Similar
  
Joe Pass albums, Bebop albums, Other albums

Eximious is an album by the American jazz guitarist Joe Pass and double bass player Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). It was re-issued in 2000 on CD by Original Jazz Classics.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "Pass swings hard throughout, is consistently inventive within the bebop tradition, and indulges in close interplay with Pedersen. Together, these musicians make the wondrous seem effortless."

Track listing

  1. "A Foxy Chick and a Cool Cat" (Joe Pass) – 5:29
  2. "Robbins Nest" (Illinois Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson) – 4:07
  3. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:47
  4. "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 3:24
  5. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 7:29
  6. "Night and Day" (Porter) – 5:34
  7. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fishcer, Frankie Laine) – 5:32
  8. "Ev'rything I Love" (Porter) – 5:01
  9. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:01
  10. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 5:08

Personnel

  • Joe Pass - guitar
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass
  • Martin Drew – drums

    • Songs

    1A Foxy Chick and a Cool Cat5:34
    2Robbins Nest4:09
    3Lush Life2:51

    References

    Eximious Wikipedia
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