Jaco Pastorius

[thunder_bird]

Anyone listen to Jaco? Personally i think its awsome

[mk-ultra]

ya hes stuff with weathereport and john scofield is very good, but im more of a stanley clarke guy

[TeleTristan]

MK, I don't think Jaco recorded anything with Scofield. They knew eachother through Pat Metheny... The egos clashing between Scofield and Pastorius would have been off the hook... if they did record together please let me know what the album was called, I'm a pretty big fan of both of them.

[thunder_bird]

Ive got a recording of "the Chicken" with both Jaco and John Scofield playing on it

[zappatude]

I saw him play with Weather Report. The highlite of the show was Jaco doing Purple Haze solo on the bass. He manipulated a loop machine of some kind to keep the back beat than brought the house down. That is one of the musical highlites of my life

[crusty]

Heard him in weather report. Awesome band they were.

[TeleTristan]

Ive got a recording of "the Chicken" with both Jaco and John Scofield playing on it
I can't find it... was it comercially available? I'm still looking :D

[mk-ultra]

i think it was a outtake or something not put on a album only can gte it in kaaza or w/e but i am probaly wrong, tbird correct me here

[thunder_bird]

Its a Jaco song featuring John Scofield. I got it of a file sharing programme :D. i dunno if u can get it commercially. I think Jaco has a collaborations album. It may be on that. But the Chicken is definately written by Jaco

[TeleTristan]

it is def. Jaco... but I was wondering if one of those warez type programs may have it mis-labeled
either it's Pat Metheny with Jaco
or maybe it's John Scofield with John Patitucci doing a Jaco song
anyway here's what Scofield says about him:
Guitarist John Scofield was a contemporary of Jaco's and recalled the sheer self-confidence that made Jaco such an imposing figure, even before he played the bass! "I was up in Boston living up there and Pat Metheny came up there and we became friends. And Pat Metheny told me, he said, 'you know there's this guy from Florida who I think he is like the greatest musician I ever met!' Pat was like really amazed by this guy. He said 'problem is, he's really out there! (Laughs) He'll like tell you he's the greatest musician you ever met!' Because all the other really great musicians we had met were really humble and were these kind of guru type guys and Jaco was different. Then Pat recently afterwards got him to play on his record, then I heard the record, I said 'you're right he is really, really good.' And then Jaco's record came out, and that blew my mind! Because I said here is somebody who has done what I wanted to do. I mean this guy on one track, he was playing with Herbie and playing just unbelievable. He was playing the bass the way I wished I could play the guitar. Then he had Sam and Dave on another track and I said 'Holy ****' because I had been a big soul music fan too at that time. Then he played Donna Lee and it was just like it was all there. And this guy was literally coming out of the blue and he changed music at that time. And then I met the man because then I got the gig with Billy Cobham's band and he joined Weather Report and we started to do all these gigs opposite each other. Then I got to know him a little bit and yeah, it was true, here was this guy who came up and said you know 'I am the greatest bass player in the world. I know you been playing with some of those other guys but man, I'm the man!' I was like 'who is this guy?' And then it really intimidated me because he was the man. He was completely the man! And he was this insane guy! (Laughs) He just played it all man, he had it all and he burned up and he's gone."

He was one of the brightest flashes in the history of modern music, I add. "Yeah, that I ever saw, like that (snaps his fingers) and it was over", Scofield confirms. "He got into getting high. When I first met him he didn't get high on anything. He was like 'I don't do that stuff, that's for ********!' Then I met him, like a year later and he was like 'hey man, I've got me some incredible cocaine, check this out!' Just completely gone, he was completely out of it. But you know, the years that he was with Weather Report and when his album came out, there was nothing like it. It was just completely unbelievable, and his compositions the whole deal, he was the greatest ever, you know?" There are plenty of imitators and great bassists around today though. "But there's nobody like Jaco. There was so much soul in that stuff and it was all the beautiful harmonics stuff too. It was Latin music, it was funk he played with Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders, which I was real into them, because he was like the white James Brown, but it was from this really slimy, Southern thing, it was so funky and then Jaco was in on that! Because he lived in Florida which was the South and the real R&B stuff was down there in the Deep South. And there was still the Criterion Studios down there where they made a lot of really heavy R&B stuff so his R&B stuff was just incredible. And all the chords that everybody heard like Joe Zawinul and Herbie and those guys I think they couldn't believe it. I was lucky to be there."

from:
http://www.restlessnativestreefarm.com/writ_flynn.html

[mk-ultra]

well i think they recored it right beofre jaco was killed le a month or so