Jaco is seen here playing "The Bass Of Doom."Jaco’s main fretless as he dubbed “The Bass Of Doom” has been found after disappearing sometime just before his death back in 1986. According to Bassplayer magazine the bass showed up at the New York apartment of, session bassist and member of the David Letterman’s Late Night Show band, Will Lee. An unnamed party brought the bass to Lee’s apar
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It’s official. We can all set our sights on locating James Jamerson’s long-lost ’62 P-Bass “Funk Machine,” because the most famous missing bass guitar of all has been found. Jaco Pastorius’s fretless 1962 Fender Jazz “Bass of Doom” (as he dubbed it) has turned up in New York City, over 20 years after it was last seen there. As Jaco’s main fretless, it can be heard on his landmark
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So I'm a late bloomer to JACO and didn’t get into this true music Genius till near the end of his life. I was at Guitar Center and his instructional video was just released, one other person standing next to me was watching. I said to him "man suck's huh" the other person responded pssyea I know tragedy, sad too bad, what a waste, great player. So for the longest time this was and still somewha.
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Note on etree db:Show originally scheduled for the parking lot at Musician's Exchange; moved at the last minute to City Limits near main gate of Port Everglades. Jaco plays the last three songs.Regarding that "Jaco played on the last 3 songs", I suspect that is false? Looking at the order of the tape & I don't think The Dregs are going to close a show with a "Jaco Solo (America)" but rather "Cr...
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So John Lennon was one Genius, but here was another. A young man who came from out of no where with a $90.00 Fender bassguitar in his hand. In his biography I read he was doing free jams till one day he had his first kid and said "well it's time to make to make some money at this bass playing thing." (Something like that been a while since I read the book, but that really stood out), But one of...
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Earlier in the same year that Jaco Pastorius joined Weather Report he recorded and released his first solo album, simply entitled "Jaco Pastorius". It was 1976 and Pastorius, virtually unheard of before - except in his home town of Fort Lauderdale Florida - suddenly became the jazz world's worst kept secret. Jaco was "discovered" by ex Blood Sweat 'n Tears drummer Bobby Colomby. The story g...
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And here's a version from the Ultimate Jaco Pastorius collection. I don't have Mingus to hand to check (vinyl playing machine is elsewhere), but I'm not completely sure this is exactly same cut as on the Joni Mitchell orginal. Regardless, the bass is astonishing.
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With his "None More Better" post, Dachmo recently inspired me to think hard about a song (or piece of music) that was the most beautiful to me. Certainly one of the most beautiful would be "Portrait Of Tracy" by Jaco Pastorius and I'll make that my vote for now. But ask me next week and the answer could be different.Music has the ability to reach deep inside and it has tricks up its sleeves f...
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I didn't know it until someone forwarded the NPR story, but today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Jaco Pastorius. I'm guessing there's some moggers out that are familiar with this absolute genius and legendary bass player. NPR does a decent job of covering his life, and his work and his death with some remarks from Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Marcus Miller. They also have stream ...
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Official Site: http://www.jacopastorius.com/default.asp 'Portrait of Tracy' video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXOnhzoC-i8&feature=relatedJaco is/was one of the most amazing electric bassists in the world, the contributions to jazz and fusion in the 13 years before his tragic death are legendary. His sound was unique, very off beat with extensive use of natural and artificial harmonics and text
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Being able to say a created work is yours is important if you want to assert your rights and receive royalties. The problem has always been providing satisfactory proof. Let's look at 3 methods of handling your created works.1 - doing nothingFor most people, this is what they do and it may be fine for them. This is, however, very short sighted. If you create a work that exists in the public ...
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I'm not the biggest jazz phan in the world. :( I just have a hard time getting into a lot of it. However.. Jaco..
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