Cavalerie joe pass biography

Born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, in New Brunswick, NJ; died of liver cancer, May 23, 1994; married wife Allison, 1963; married Ellen Luders, 1987; children: two.

Throughout nearly 50 years as a professional guitarist, Joe Pass managed to break through many barriers and obstacles in music as well as in his own life.

Cavalerie joe pass biography

Born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua, the eldest of five brothers in New Brunswick, New Jersey, his parents moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, while he was still a child. Pass became interested in guitar after he saw "singing cowboy" Gene Autry in the film Ride Tenderfoot Ride.

Autry sparked his curiosity about the instrument and motivated him to ask for a guitar for his birthday.

When he turned nine years old in 1938, Pass's father, Mariano Passalaqua, gave him a $17 Harmony steel-string flat-top guitar.

Soon, Passalaqua pushed his son to practice the guitar for at least five hours a day. "My father thought I showed signs of being able to play,"