🎷 AotW: Jazz Jaco Pastorius - JACO PASTORIUS

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Captain Bacardi

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Jaco Pastorius
JACO PASTORIUS
Epic Records
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Released 1976

Peaked at #34 on the Jazz Album chart (1976)

Produced by Bobby Colomby for Colomby Productions

Songs & Musicians:
1. Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) - 2:28
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
2. Come On, Come Over (Bob Herzog/Jaco Pastorius) - 3:52
Featuring Sam & Dave
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Ron Tooley - Trumpet
Peter Graves - Bass Trombone
David Sanborn - Alto Sax
Michael Brecker - Tenor Sax
Howard Johnson - Baritone Sax
Herbie Hancock - Clavinet, Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Narada Michael Walden - Drums
Don Alias - Congas
Sam Moore - Vocals
Dave Pratter - Vocals
3. Continuum (Jaco Pastorius) - 4:33
Herbie Hancock - Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Alex Darqui - Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Don Alias - Drums
4. Kuru/Speak Like A Child (Jaco Pastorius/Herbie Hancock) - 7:42
Herbie Hancock - Acoustic Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Bobby Economou - Drums
Don Alias - Bongos, Congas
On "Speak Like A Child" Add:
David Nadian - Violin (Concertmaster)
Harry Lookofsky - Violin
Paul Gershman - Violin
Joe Malin - Violin
Harry Cykman - Violin
Harold Kohon - Violin
Stewart Clarke - Viola
Manny Vardi - Viola
Julian Barber - Viola
Charles McCracken - Cello
Kermit Moore - Cello
Beverly Lauridsen - Cello
String Arrangement by Jaco Pastorius
Strings Conducted by Michael Gibbs
5. Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius) - 2:22
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
6. Opus Pocus (Jaco Pastorius) - 5:29
Wayne Shorter - Soprano Sax
Herbie Hancock - Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Othello Molineaux - Steel Drums
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Don Alias - Percussion
7. Okonkole Y Trompa (Jaco Pastorius/Don Alias) - 4:25
Peter Gordon - French Horn
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Don Alias - Okonkoko, Iya, Congas, Afuche
8. (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha (Jaco Pastorius) - 8:57
Hubert Laws - Piccolo, Flute
Herbie Hancock - Acoustic Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Don Alias - Congas
9. Forgotten Love (Jaco Pastorius) - 2:14
Herbie Hancock - Piano
String Section Same as Track 4 except add:
Matthew Raimondi - Violin
Max Pollikoff - Violin
Arnold Black - Violin
Al Brown - Viola
Alan Shulman - Viola
Richard Davis - Bass
Homer Mensch - Bass
10. (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha - 8:49*
Same Personnel as Track 8
11. 6/4 Jam (Jaco Pastorius) - 7:45*
Herbie Hancock - Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Jaco Pastorius - Electric Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Don Alias - Congas
* - CD Bonus Tracks

Recorded and Mixed at Camp Colomby Studios, New City, NY
Engineer: David Palmer
Assistant Engineer: Ted Hammond
Also Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios C & B, NY, NY
Engineer: Don Puluse
Assistant Engineer: Ted Brosnan
Liner Notes by Herbie Hancock
CD Reissue Liner Notes by Pat Metheny

Available at Amazon.com (with song samples): http://www.amazon.com/Jaco-Pastorius-PASTORIUS-JACO/dp/B00004VWA7/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1424998292&sr=1-1&keywords=jaco pastorius



Capt. Bacardi
 
Indeed--to end his career (and life) over something so senseless. But we at least get to enjoy what he played on.

His twin sons Felix and Julius carry on the musical tradition, Felix on bass and Julius on drums. Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo has one of Jaco's basses, and Felix borrowed it when he was part of Yellowjackets to record their most recent album A Rise In The Road. Felix has his own style--no worries about anyone trying to "clone" Jaco's sound.

Trujillo also owns the "Bass of Doom" – a defretted mid-1960s Fender Jazz Bass that was formerly owned by the late Jaco Pastorius and which was extensively used on his recorded works. The bass had been seriously damaged, but has subsequently been restored and refinished. Trujillo acquired it from its previous owner, with the intention of having the bass remain with him, in trust for the Pastorius family. He has, however, been seen playing it onstage with Metallica.

Trujillo stated that "Jaco [Pastorius] was my hero growing up," and that "Hearing him was like hearing Eddie Van Halen doing 'Eruption' for the first time: You thought, ‘What instrument is that?’ I loved jazz fusion and branched out from there. But Jaco had an edge that far exceeded his jazz persona. He was funk, he was rock, he was soul. And his whole attitude was punk."
 
What I don't get is why he is pigeonholed in the jazz category when he played with many people outside of it and said in an interview, "I like anything with a groove".
 
Pigeonholed? Are you kidding me? He wasn't pigeonholed - he was revered as the ultimate bass player. He was a major innovator of the bass, sometimes to a fault. Herbie Hancock once was talking about doing a record and was told that Jaco would be on the session, and Herbie said "Great! So who's going to play bass?" But jazz was clearly his forte (love those big band albums he did). Sure, he did other genres, but jazz was where he made things happen!



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