So (and this is going to be embarrassing at first) here is my first attempt. I am not looking to emulate Jaco’s exact bassline throughout the song but I would like to get to a point where I can play the basic riff all the way through the song including the unison part and then to be able to improvise little variations to spice things up a little. A drummer, just like his dad, Jack Pastorius, a big band player and singer. I put the track on repeat on spotify and played in none stop for a couple of hours whilst I worked to try and get the general form into my head and then did a little youtube viewing to try to work out the basic bassline and chord progression.īecause I normally need a scary goal to achieve stuff and because I think it might help others, I have decided to document my journey of learning this bassline. Instead, the man who would be the master of the fretless electric bass was a drummer. This is a necessary package for anyone interested in the development of electric jazz in the 1970s and 1980s.I had never heard of this piece before yesterday () but something about the bassline grabbed me and I decided I needed to learn to play it.
The set closes with him in trios with Mike Stern and Brian Melvin. The solo "Amerika" offers a more intimate view of Pastorius as a seeker of texture and sonic subtleties. Disc two concentrates on Jaco's innovative work as a composer for his own bands, as evidenced by "Word of Mouth," "Liberty City," "John and Mary," "Chromatic Fantasy," and "Blackbird." Four live tracks with the big band showcase his role as a bandleader and arranger of true authority and vision.
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The more pop side of Jaco's work is highlighted on the first disc with his contributions to Joni Mitchell's Mingus and Shadows and Light albums, as well as his more exotic, atmospheric work with Airto and Flora. Jaco Pastorius - Soul Intro / The Chicken. Even in abstraction, Pastorius had a groove. which Ian capitalized on with the vocal line and the lyrics. Even those well acquainted with Pastorius will be surprised as to how well the sequencing of these tracks offers such a prismatic view of Pastorius' growth as a bassist - check out the silky funky grooves on Little Beaver's "I Can Dig It Baby" and the gutbucket greasy R&B of "Amelia," as they give way to adventurous early fusion of "Batterie" with Metheny, Bley, and Bruce Ditmas. The Chicken Bireli Lagrene & Jaco Pastorius. Casual listeners will be astonished by the sheer multi-dimensional nature of his limitless musicality and vision. Pastorius fanatics will no doubt already have everything here in one form or another. Today in Amarillo: Chicken Marbella Video Center - Latest / 16 mins ago. Two other cuts, "Foreign Fun" and "Okonkole y Trompa," are on CD in the United States for the first time. There are three unreleased cuts - "Amelia," an unreleased home demo of "The Chicken," and "Good Morning Annya" from his unfinished steel drum project, Holiday for Pans. Riders and home playing the Cochran standard "Amelia," to his work with underground R&B act Little Beaver and such artists as Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Joni Mitchell in and out of the studio, Paul Bley, Airto and Flora Purim, Michel Columbier, Brian Melvin, and his diverse projects - including "Birdland" with Weather Report. This two-CD, 28-track collection ranges across the fretless bass inventor's earliest recordings, documented by a live appearance with Wayne Cochran's C.C. Thankfully, there is finally a definitive Jaco Pastorius anthology that offers an accurate portrait of the breadth and depth of his innovative artistry beyond what his contributions to Weather Report and his own Word of Mouth and Trio of Doom (which many would argue are sufficient in and of themselves) would suggest.
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