Jazz Beat #14 - Joe Pass

New England Public Media | By Tom Reney

Published February 10, 2016 at 2:41 PM EST

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Joe Pass, 1975

Tom Reney, Host of NEPR's Jazz a la Mode, shines the spotlight on the career of one of the great jazz guitarists, Joe Pass. This podcast delineates the rise of Joe Pass' career and its place in a wider jazz history. And it includes some really wonderful music!

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Tom Reney

Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.

Email Tom at tom_reney@nepm.org.

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