Ten JACO PASTORIUS tunes you have never heard (probably)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College
Just know that the most beautiful playing I've heard from him is on Joni Mitchell's underrated album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.
The Joni track that kills me every time > the SHADOWS & LIGHT opener, "In France They Kiss On Main Street". Jaco takes no prisoners on that one.
There was a real magic that happened whenever those two worked together.
@@Hydrocorax So true!
@@jazzpunk So sensitive, delicate and playful!
@@jazzpunk Agreed. Another great one is his playing on the groovy 1979 tour arrangement of Big Yellow Taxi
I love the Albert Mangelsdorffs album, Trilogue with Jaco. Alphonse Mouzon is the drummer and my favorite record that has Jaco playing.
Jaco is absolutely one of the greatest 70s/80s jazz composers. He's best known for his blazing-fast bass licks, but I think his writing surpassed his playing with tunes like Las Olas, Three Views of a Secret and the incredibly underrated Forgotten Love. Great video!
Now, here's something interesting for music nerds: there's a tune called +71, for which Jaco wrote sheet music (featured in Bill Milkowski's book) but most likely never recorded in studio. It's definitely an interesting one
I opened the above Esoteric Jaco link...I have 8 of the 10. The 2 tunes I don't have...I have not heard. Can't wait!
You are a serious Jaco fan!
I only have 2 so really looking forward to Andy's list. The Michel Colombier track with Jaco I love is 'Dreamland'.
Great video Andy. The most salient feature of Jaco in the studio was just how generous he was in terms of an overall contribution. As you correctly point out, Jaco was first and foremost an incredibly gifted composer. If "I sing the body electric" was the event that hardened his resolve to participate in the Weather Report project then his subsequent involvement with Joni's late seventies projects did much to loosen the fixation of both Jaco and Wayne and created a restleness that the internal dynamics of the band were never able to adequately resolve.
I met Jaco in NY city at a rehearsal studio. McLaughlin and Michael Walden were jamming and Jaco walked in. His bass guitar looked like Hell, but when he started playing it was amazing. Jaco asked me for money for gas in his car. I gave him 20 bucks and I really enjoyed watching him play.
Wow, great story, thanks. Do you happen to remember the date?
I love the concept and playlist. I get a lot of joy from listening to obscure gems like I'm sure these are.
Thanks for the list Andy, I wouldn’t have thought to check any of these out particularly, but with you selecting and recommending it will be interesting to check them out. I saw him on the Night Passage tour with Weather Report at Birmingham Odeon back when I was a kid and although at that age a lot of their stuff would have been a bit over my head, he was still great on the level that someone like me at that age could be drawn in by …. soloing, flash complex runs etc
I knew about half the tracks so very grateful for "new" Jaco music....Jaco revolutionized the bass in several ways....and to quote Peter Erskine: "He played the bass better than anyone else ever did or ever will"
Jaco's Continuum is incredible. Percy Jones was playing fretless in a totally different way with Eno and Brand X. Alphonso Johnson was playing fretless amazing way even before Jaco.
As a HUGE Airto fan, I knew Nativity, but none of the others, so ta very muchly, sir!
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Mike Stern track mood swings!
I was so pumped up when I bought that LP in the day. Not a fan of Jaco's tone on that, though. You?
You got me 100% on Deadline DOWN BY LAW. So, I dug. Laswell with drummer Phillip Wilson. Now the Paul Butterfield thing makes sense. Wilson played in The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (KEEP ON MOVING. A Classic). Also in the band > Brother Gene Dinwiddie, Buzz Feiten, & Fred Beckmeier...all became members of Full Moon (w/ Neil Larsen). Their debut remains a stone Classic!
Nice vlog. Glad to hear the mention of the Paul Bley composition "Vampira" here. That entire LP is such a great record! I have it filed under Metheny in my collection, but the quartet as a whole is so good that no one owns it as a singular performer. Also,...that album may be on of the the best Carla Bley album that never had Carla Bley as a performer. She writes great music. Vashkar is my favorite tune.
Thanks , some I've heard , but some are a complete surprise , you've done a great service to all Jaco appreciative s
Great video!
Here my three :
1- Al DiMeola : Suite golden dawn
2- Herbie Hancock : Good question
3- Herbie Hancock : 4 am
You sir you’re a gem. Thanks! ✌️❤️
Thank you sir !!! New music to enjoy ...
A jazzfriend of mine gave me- 2 cassettes of Michel Colombier -that I absolutely love , and 1 of my favorite album’s of all time -is NATIVE DANCER by Wayne Shorter -featuring the unmistakable vocal stylings of MILTON NASCIMENTO,,, andi go back and play this original vinyl, at least once a month!!! !
Some great stuff on here Andy - you may know there is a Japanese only release "Rare Collection" that has quite alot of this list - its a great CD. Love the Michel Colombier album and would dare to say that Dreamland might be Jaco's greatest romantic statement
Peter erskine helped me find a jaco song i was looking for in the jaco lost tapes youtube documentary. Song was Gibraltar
Great list. A very interesting mix of music in there that I will be adding to my playlist. Only song I've heard are Las Olas and I Can Dig It Baby.
Wow - will have to check some of those tracks out! That Methany /Ditmas/Bley album just showed up in my YT feed!
Thoughts on "Trilogue"? Jaco , Alphonse Mouzon drumming and trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff. Unique lineup that has the most extended "Free Jazz" I've heard from Jaco.
great list, lots of stuff I didn't know, cheers! also worth checking is an obscure album called Essence featuring Jaco Pastorius : Last Flight
Fantastic video. Some of my favourites -
If you could see me now.
Three views of a secret (Charlie Brent original version).
Dixie dreggs Jaco jam.
NYC groove 2.
History.
Invitation WOM sextet.
Microcosm.
Dolphin dance Belgium live.
Higher.
I’ve heard about 7/10
From you’re list.. thanks 🙏
All American, alien boy Ian Hunter 1976
Thank's for that pieces i knew before exept Tom Scott ; there is a drummer(you know him ; i'm sure)Brian Melvin "Fever" reprise in Gm REGGAE (you must listen thar pièce ; it's unic)
The credits on the Michel Colombier album he thanks all the musicians, but thanks God for Jaco!
I just made a top ten jaco groove list on my channel last week. It lists great grooves in chronological order starting with Jaco Pastorius / Tommy Strand & Upper Hand moving to Bright Size Life 74' boston edited to have bass in both ears and followed by opus pocus, cannon ball in montreux, then scarlett woman and havona, invitation.
nice list.
Curated playlists is an expandable series-concept.
4:12 - "the late, great Carlos Rios" Hold on, "late?!" When did Carlos Rios pass away? His playing has been quite inspirational to me, and I'm having trouble finding a source stating that he has passed away. Could you kindly share your source? Much obliged. I've been hoping against hope that someone like yourself would interview him about his music, and it's sad to think the opportunity to learn from him is already gone.
I got it wrong
Excellent stuff!! Don't know some of these.....!!!
I have an idea for you to rank. The top 10 or 20 best secret weapons in a band who most people don't really know, but musicians adore. For instance, Dave Gregory of XTC. Ian Bairnson of Alan Parsons Project. John Paul Jones. Geezer Butler. Simon Phillips. Eddie Jobson. Ray Shulman. Gavin Harrison, and so many more.
My all-time favorite jaco Composition three views of the secret
Absolutely haunting & stunning...
Did you mention that part of Jaco's distinctive tone and phrasing is that he usually played fretless electric bass which most electric bass players do not? If you mentioned it, I must have missed it and I apologise.
Great idea!
I always liked I can dig it baby by little beaver
Thanks for compiling this exciting list of performance recordings. Being a bassist and an awkwardly dedicated Jaco fan myself I agree on your judgement of Jaco being an even more avid composer than a revolutionary virtuoso fretless bassist.
Two other tunes that are somewhat esoteric I know of out of the top of my head,
- '4 A.M.' on Herbie Hancock's 'Mr. Hands',
ruclips.net/video/A4RKLZCdyh8/видео.html
- 'Cty of Angels' on Michel Camilo's 'On The Other Hand' (cover w/out Jaco playing, just his composition),
ruclips.net/video/hnqX1BpjhI0/видео.html
Another..."Dania" from Brian Melvin NIGHT FOOD. A swingin' Jaco original.
That’s an amazing piece! Got it on “The Word is Out” album.
The greatest bass player in the world. Still!
Not to denigrate Jaco but wonder if he was influenced by Eberhard Weber? Like Jaco but prefer Weber - also quite a varied discography.
1962 fender jazz bass
Bass of doom 😮
1999-ish...there was a release called Jaco Pastorius: Rare Collection (9 tunes, very similar to Andy's esoteric list). There's a Manglesdorff/Mouzon track from TRILOGUE. "4 A.M." from Herbie Hancock's MR. HANDS is another hidden gem with prototypical Jaco funk-isms.
What do you guys think of "Wiggle Waggle" & how they pieced that track together (WORD OF MOUTH REVISITED)?
Berlin 1976, I was there. Mangelsdorff was my hero!
They sampled an old bassline from JP into Wiggle Waggle.
Also worth mentioning: 1979 McLaughlin/Williams/Pastorius: Trio of Doom
@@scoop1178 I thought the recording of Wiggle Waggle on WOM Revisited was a Peter Graves Orchestra live performance from 1973
oops restlessness. Apologies!
I don’t think I’ve heard any of these tunes. Thanks for the playlist, mucho appreciado.
He played on a Ian Hunter record. I forgot the name.
ALL AMERICAN ALIEN BOY
Right you are and I did think this would get mentioned. However, excellent list and beyond my knowledge of the Jaco canon. Well done!!!
When I first heard this track on BBC Radio I knew in my heart that my bass playing days were over... ruclips.net/video/RXiYkOEBv8U/видео.html
Jeff Berlin
Herbie Hancock 4 am