Bro Jacos got some kind of hack. The sheer number of notes and chords he plays on that fretless bass and not a single one out of tune. It's simply incredible.
he said in an interview that when he pulled out the frets from his bass with a knife, some strain from the fret remain on the wood of the bass, still he killed it...
he took a butterknife and messed up his bass to get the frets off, because of a broken stand up he could not afford to replace, and what you say about the strain og a fret, where do you have that information from? From what i know, Jaco filled the gaps after the frets and coated the neck with Epoxy so there were 0 chance for any strain of metal from any of the frets still being on the bass. @@romanungerer8230
Man, I love Albert! Killin’ trombonist with a completely original conception. He was a great bebop trombonist before transitioning into free jazz in the early 70s. He released a bunch of great albums into the 90s. And this is absolutely prime Jaco. 1976 before he fell apart from mental illness exacerbated by drugs and alcohol. At this moment in time, he was unquestionably the greatest, most original electric bassist on the planet. There was nothing like him. Zawinul played with Mangelsdorf in the early 60s before moving to America. He set up the this gig between the two. I’m not sure how Mouzon got involved but he’s killin’ it here too. This was not a working band. I think they had a brief rehearsal at sound check earlier in the day and this is probably the only time they played this music in its entirety. I loved this album when I first heard it in the late 70s and I love that there is video of the gig.
Jaco was on tour with Zawinul at that time, it was producer J.E. Behrendt who convinced him to join this session, so Jaco flew in with his 2 fretless Jazz Basses and a fat Acoustic Amp Rig. They did 3 days of rehearsal before recording this out of this world concert at Jazz Tage Berlin 1976. It was released on Vinyl by MPS 0068.175. Glad to own an orignal copy. I wish I could have been there in 1976, but Germany was still separated by a wall back in these days.
I owned this album for years and knew every note and lick by heart. Never in my mind did I imagine a video of it existed until five or six years ago. It was like seeing a ghost to actually witness the music I have loved for so long. The album was actually released under Albert Manglesdorf's name and it's a little sad and unfair that it's now marketed as a Jaco concert. But, if it gets it a wider audience I guess that's OK. Albert's use of multiphonics on trombone were the perfect complement to Jaco's harmonics and chording. This is amazing music that has stood and will continue to stand the test of time.
A friend of mine showed me this video 10 years ago and had it at least 10 years before that. To the people critiquing the hell out of this video with their nit-picking, I think if you actually liked and deeply knew anything about music, the words of your comments would be much more generous and insightful. If you gauge and compare this to Bebop, any of Miles Davis' electric bands, Eric Dolphy (who would have been amazing with these cats on that stage in that situation) or even to Mingus' more abstract works, well, that's your first mistake. First of all, the trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff, was truly amazing and other worldy with his harmonics and general approaches to his solos, Alphonse Mouzon was an amazing drummer who may be have been a bit underrated in the 1970s and was perfect for this situation from his skills level, to the funk, to the brim and his presence and clothing were the epitome of Afro-American fashion expression along with his high musical intelect; he covered all the bases, and Jaco was relaxed and really riding high as Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" was being released in 1977 after his 1976 first solo album and in the same year.. his first appearance on two tracks of Weather Report's "Black Market" album. The video displays one of Jaco's purist performances.., just in general; not necessarily perfect from a bass technique performance standpoint, but, that's what makes it even more engaging to watch.., still, effortless in its own way. It's just very interesting to view this as it appears that Jaco's mind was still relatively fresh, clean and intact. It's a great document for which to view and listen and study. Haters are gonna keep hatin', listeners are gonna to keep learnin'.
This is when Jaco was a pure improvisor. For me this is the height of his playing. He was later to change the world, but this is a great archive of when his playing was at it's most spontaneous for me.
Don't forget Word Mouth record. As Jaco loved J.S.Bach works, this record has clearly been influenced by the master composer. At least for me, when I listen Crisis you can contemplate The Well Tempered Klavier Alla Pastorius. I almost forgot, Bach was a huge improvisor either.
Every afternoon I have to chart my work for the day. It takes a couple of hours to do and I am usually left in peace - so I am able to enjoy some tunes while I work. Today I said to myself "what am I in the mood for?" as I scrolled possibilities on RUclips. "Herbie? No. Miles? Nah did him yesterday...."" "Jaco. Yeah, that'll work". In 58 years I had never heard of this recording or trio. One and a half hours later and I still haven't written a word. I'm stunned. Speechless.
...brilliant culture that gives us such an astounding musical document. The musicians are obviously masters - breathtaking, really. Peak performances. Also, the staging and the crew that filmed the event must be praised. Beautiful shots, showing the artist in relation to instrument, or the players communicating as a unit. Excellent shots and editing. Kudos to everone involved and those who attended for creating such art. The trombonist has blown my mind. Must collect his music and research his life. Alphonse proves one of the great modern players with this recording. And Jaco! What, just before recoding with Joni (?), his first solo record about to drop? Prime footage of a true genius about to create a tsunami in the musical world.
@@stevenwisniewski1 how can you love a jazz bassist KNOWN for his impeccable improv and NOT like his IMPECCABLE improv? I guess I understand. It's still probably ahead of you.
I never thought at my age I'd run across something that would surprise me as much from this far back. Pastorius and Mouzon, I know. I'd never even heard of Mangelsdorff. Incredible.
I saw Jaco several times with Weather Report back in the 70's, and with his Word Of Mouth Band at My Father's Place on Long Island back around the mid-80's. I loved the guy, and I miss him so much. It's like a family member died. :( Edit: Jaco was one of the VERY few bass players that had PERFECT intonation on the fretless bass. I cry when I think about the way he died. It Still haunts me to this day...
I know it's creepy to chime in on a comment 10 months after the fact. i apologize. but you're right. Alphonse was as good as there has ever ever been. he was a big hero of John Bonham. which is pretty interesting really!
RIP Alphonse Mouzon.. he died a few years back. I was on his RUclips channel towards the bitter end, and he was posting the audio from his doctor visits online. Apparently his bung hole just completely rotted from the inside out. What a horrible way to go.
Godd to hear you're still active. This was such a great performance.
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+Eric Van Buggenhaut.. Sadly he passed a little bit after the above post. This video is actually the last video he watched his YT account which is pretty wild. He Died on Christmas Day 2016.. RIP Alphonse!
Mouzon was one of the best drummers ever. His signature snare triplets let you know who was on the kit. His drumming on Patrick Moraz the Story of I was what turned me on to his playing. Sad that he passed.
Jaco at his absolute peak before the substances, Zawinul, and the effects of being a superstar and touring started breaking him down. Philly's baseball hat wearing era is magic - Forty years later and Portrait of Tracy is still fresh and unique. Thanks for posting this amazing footage.
Every time I come back to this concert it gets better. This sounds like the kind of music serious musicians play when there's no audience. Thanks for the post!
This is a true gold mine to find from 76. And the film quality is really descent. What a great band, the musicians are skillfully timed. Thank You for posting and Thank You to RUclips
Two notes come when a trombonist plays one and sings the other. That involves the use of harmonics. At best, it produces three notes. When two different notes are played together, they will generate a third note as their sum. Thus if one plays A at 110 cycles per second, and sings E at 165 cps, one will get the sum, C sharp, at 275, a nice fat A major triad. Mangelsdorff was brilliant at this.
Correction, at best it creates more than 3 notes. And when you sing an open 5th (A and E) the third doesn't ring out; you get more roots and 5ths Play that A and raise the voice up from the E to an F# and the D will ring out.....second inversion D chord
this is the most BALLS i've ever seen in one concert....making rhythmically, harmonically,melodically dense music that's also inventive and widely improvised on these instruments is BEYOND my mortal comprehension
Because Jaco was truly both motivated and captivated by going to Berlin back then in '76 and playing this monumental gig with Mangelsdorff with the late great phenomenal jazz-rock drummer :Alphonse Mouzon back then this was Jaco right at his most memorable, and embryonic experimental period when he had previously had just joined BS&T due to Bobby Columby Blood Sweat and Tears drumners recommendation, a band that had both Mike Stern on guitar ,Don Alias on congas and percussion etc David Clayton Thomas on lead vocals. I personally knew Jaco at this time had pulled records for him at Peaches Records & Tapes on Sunrise Blvd right next to Holiday Park in Lauderdale at 1500 E.Sunrise Blvd.where Jaco got the title for "Holiday for Pans" album/ CD release. This was a very vitally significant time for Jaco ,everyone at this time was into drummer Alphobse Mouzon due to his incredible album on Blue Note: "Mind Transplant" which we played non stop as musician employees at Peaches Records & Tapes ,Jaco had just made the Al DiMeola album with Al Mouzon on drums and Barry Miles on jeyboards: "Land of the Midnight Sun" for CBS ..he was really excited about going to Berlin and working with Albert Mangelsdorff and Al Mouzon and told me so in the classical/ opera section at Peaches. He clearly didn't like guitarists or dud he enjoy working with them ,so that working with DiMeola was a one-time thing and was a bit of a fluke for Jaco,he loved working with vocalists, orchestras etc his favorite records were Ornerte's "The Skies of America" on Columbia ,all of the Miles and Coltrane Impulse albums from the 60's with McCoy,Jimmy Garrison,Reggie Workman,Elaine Jones etc all of those Columbia 60's Miles lps with Ron Carter ,those were his practice lps and Jimmy,Reggie,Ron,Paul Chambers,Mongo Santamaria etc were Jaco's musical heroes and major musical influences .. Bob Bobbing would strut into my import dept to tell me Jaco stories as he grew up living nect door to Jaco and his brother. Jaco would walk around strut around the Amboy Dukes section in Rock and tell me that "This cat has ears like magnets man" referring to his engineer on his self-titled Epic debut Jaco Pastorius,referring to his great engineer / drummer : Dave Palmee ex drummer of The Amboy Dukes so it was a very powerfully magical period for Jaco and for that of myself aa well. You just had to be there. It was monumental in forging Jaco-s musical future in progressive modern contemporary music case closed!: Brilliant music,brilliant creative time for everybody and everyone plain and simple Incredibly Killer Brilliant fun time for music
Pity he didn't stay in the avant-garde, instead of losing his mind playing that glorified calliope music with WR. OK, maybe a pit-stop with WR, a couple tours with them (a one-time thing, as you say) and then basta and on to things more interesting and edifying - with the cream of the European/British avant-gardists, for example. He'd already recorded with Bley, here he is with Mangelsdorff, could've lived in Paris or Darmstadt, made instructional tapes (that the whole world would've bought), played with Jutta Hipp, Misha Mengelberg, Tomasz Stanko - who knows who else? And stayed far away from that fascist butterball Zawinul.
This is just an awesome display of talent both on the part of each individual musician, and as a whole band. Prodigious. Unparalleled. As a bass player I can say that Jaco is basically from another planet in terms of talent on bass, but the drummer and the trombone also both blew my mind in this performance, absolutely magnificent.
Three fine gentleman musicians. They follow and enhance what the other puts down. Not try to out do one another. Completely harmoniously entwined notes. Giving each man room for these great solos! The way it should be. No competition. Just sweet music.
I may have commented to this video prior but Mouzon was a fucking monster of monsters. Jaco was a monster of monster as well. We were acquaintances in Ft. Laud. He would check all the working bassists out but he was looking for two drummers I just happened to have been working with in two different house bands. He would give bear hugs to bass players he thought were doing their own thing, could play a pocket. As influences we had Jemmott in common but my guy was Rainey and I would constantly throw in all my Rainey licks into any given tune which were mostly pop stuff of the day. Still I knew where to put it and that's what caught his ear. As a musician -- there remains no words to describe the being or what he brought to the world stage. There isn't a bassist out there alive in the same bags as he could play in who are remotely as funky. They can call it funk but they got no black in their soul. No Carribean roots as Jaco did. That kind of soul.
Alphonse was im told a distant cousin whom ive never had the pleaser to meet. However being a bassist i have met jaco a couple of times. I just got the news of alphonse's passing. I wont pretent to have heard much of his music and was much more partial to jaco but of the 3 in this setting he (alphonse) comes off the most brilliant. I was at the candy store today 12-28-16 and saw carrie fisher passed and as i get home get an email regarding alphonse. I guess i had to see this concert again to see these wonderful artist. Rest in peace mr mouzon.
Jaco heard music no one else did and pulled it off...so fortunate to hear this!! Gifted has its 'side-affects'!! Jaco was unique as Joni Mitchell said!
This is so ahead of it's time for then and now. it's like ballsiest form of free Jazz I've ever heard still has the same effect on as when I heard it about 5 years ago. I have never heard of a trio to this day that featured only Bass Drums and Trombone. it's almost like Jaco's use of Harmonics adds a 4th member to the band. almost as if he takes the role of a bass AND and some piano elements at certain points. crazy.
Maybe check out Bassdrumbone with Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, and Gerry Hemingway. Helias plays upright and the music is much more varied in terms of style (at turns free jazz, at turns groove, at turns hard-bopping swing). They're absolutely wonderful and have been putting out records for something like 30 years now.
dsvet Mats/Morgan Band is excellent, and I'd go further and say that the overall improvised music scene is certainly light years more robust and exciting than it ever was during Jaco's time, especially since fusion and smooth jazz are no longer the ridiculous commercial monstrosity subgenres that they were in the 1970s-1990s. What's going on right now (more DIY, more small labels, less bullshit) is definitely the best that fans of this music could ask for.
I caught Alphonse Mouzon's drumming at a small club in suburban Maryland in the mid '70's when he was playing with Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House. He was about as impressive as Billy Cobham with Mahavishnu we saw a year or two earlier.
It was not pre-WR. He was in the band already and Zawinul OK'd Jaco stepping away from the tour/recording schedule because he respected the hell out of Manglesdorff and the producer.
Very few of us who want to share our soul through music, and try, forget the pain of delivering the package, Jaco brings it! Anyone who listens can only be inspired.
they did a recording on Deutsche Gramophone. Fantastic album. I also saw Albert at Montreux, must have been 79-80 with a trio (different set up) - mindblowing concert - The drummer was exstatic and they had to pick up the cymbals several times during the concert...they were falling - he hit them so hard..
I got a chance to see Alphonse Muzon live with Larry Coryell and the 11th house at the Blue note in NYC in 2015... he was doing his thing!!! tremendous drummer
So, you're a much-needed-respected public intellectual, a supreme basketball player and you love Alphonse. Man, what can't you do? We live in desperate times. Please speak out more about jazz or whatever strikes you. Please. Thanks. (PS I've not been to the Blue Note for many years, not since the Umbria Jazz Festival where my wife's cousin played drums. If I am mistaken for assuming who you are, please forgive me.)
amazing concert - amazing three men mangelsdorff who invented this chord-like-playing by a trombone jaco, crazy mad master professor of electric bass and alphonse.. the 4th track trilogue, drum solo part between 38.15 - 38.26 !!! man, I like Cobham, DeJohnette, great late Tony, others, but I've never heard such clearly played MELODY with roll technique by a drummer ! bad bad bad
+ss kurultay That was so nice of you to say that about me. Thanks a Million. If you're in LA, please come see me in Janaury 2016 in Long Beach, CA. THE ALPHONSE MOUZON JAZZ & SMOOTH JAZZ ALL-STAR BAND www.eventbrite.com/e/alphonse-mouzons-jazz-smooth-jazz-all-star-band-at-the-seabird-jazz-lounge-tickets-19727862568
This is a seminal recording, and for decades I have been listening to it. I never knew there was video (film) footage of it, though. So excited! Never thought I'd ever get to see this band. thanks for posting this one!! If you understand the nature and mechanics of improvisational theory with melody, harmony, and rhythm, you'll understand everything that's happening here. If you don't, you can still enjoy it, and if you don't get it or enjoy it, that's cool too. This is about as advanced as it gets. But don't disparage what you don't understand--cutting it down won't make you any taller.
FUCKING PHENOMENAL!!!!! I saw this in college. A professor that I knew had me over one night to watch it and drink. ....i remember loving the sound of the trombone and THISE DRUMS.....Jaco....Nuff said. Then everything got fuzzy and i remember waking up and knowing that my professor rufied me. I don't know what he did to me....but it was....dirty. I have never gotten over it. ......i cry sometimes. But, hey, he introduced me to this. So it wasnt all bad.....gay isnt wrong.
+MajickPalindrome I've been called a Beast on the Drums so many times that I'm now believe that I am one. Thanks a Million. If you're in LA, please come see me in Janaury 2016 in Long Beach, CA. THE ALPHONSE MOUZON JAZZ & SMOOTH JAZZ ALL-STAR BAND www.eventbrite.com/e/alphonse-mouzons-jazz-smooth-jazz-all-star-band-at-the-seabird-jazz-lounge-tickets-19727862568
WALKER MACMILLAN Most great music and musician play random shit that sounds great- it's an art. It's also an art to build a successful career by making simple playing sound difficult and make something out of random shit - most us can do that. I concur with you 100%.
WALKER MACMILLAN Sounds like the typical line of either a non-musician; or someone that has to categorize talent due to an over-inflated ego. Which one are you?
Retired professional drummer from Los Angeles here, YUP, 70's jazz fusion, I cut my teeth on this genre, on bands like Return to Forever, Yellow Jackets, Spyro Gyra and many, many more. Man, yellow Gretsch in high gloss, soooooo 70's!! So many cats played those, Alfonse here, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Simon Phillips and many more, a variable 'whose who'....
It that specific sound that Jaco has, I keep coming back to. He is inevidable, one of a kind I love him with all my heart. And the solos melt me each and every time. No matter how much I listen to him hh.
Well then, that was mind-bendingly brilliant. The musicians are other worldly. Kudos to the crew for such great work documenting the show. Great technical and artistic choices behind the camera, too. Best footage i've ever seen of Jaco. Alphonse is a monster, of course. Must research Albert on trombone. Astounding music. Thanks for the upload!
There aren’t many videos this good of Jaco in his absolute prime , a full concert worth
A todo él que esta leyendo esto que Dios le bendiga
It was a year when u said this but thanks. God doesnt care about time though anyway right? so god bless u too
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Bro Jacos got some kind of hack. The sheer number of notes and chords he plays on that fretless bass and not a single one out of tune. It's simply incredible.
he said in an interview that when he pulled out the frets from his bass with a knife, some strain from the fret remain on the wood of the bass, still he killed it...
he took a butterknife and messed up his bass to get the frets off, because of a broken stand up he could not afford to replace, and what you say about the strain og a fret, where do you have that information from? From what i know, Jaco filled the gaps after the frets and coated the neck with Epoxy so there were 0 chance for any strain of metal from any of the frets still being on the bass.
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Man, I love Albert! Killin’ trombonist with a completely original conception. He was a great bebop trombonist before transitioning into free jazz in the early 70s. He released a bunch of great albums into the 90s. And this is absolutely prime Jaco. 1976 before he fell apart from mental illness exacerbated by drugs and alcohol. At this moment in time, he was unquestionably the greatest, most original electric bassist on the planet. There was nothing like him. Zawinul played with Mangelsdorf in the early 60s before moving to America. He set up the this gig between the two. I’m not sure how Mouzon got involved but he’s killin’ it here too. This was not a working band. I think they had a brief rehearsal at sound check earlier in the day and this is probably the only time they played this music in its entirety. I loved this album when I first heard it in the late 70s and I love that there is video of the gig.
Jaco was on tour with Zawinul at that time, it was producer J.E. Behrendt who convinced him to join this session, so Jaco flew in with his 2 fretless Jazz Basses and a fat Acoustic Amp Rig.
They did 3 days of rehearsal before recording this out of this world concert at Jazz Tage Berlin 1976.
It was released on Vinyl by MPS 0068.175. Glad to own an orignal copy.
I wish I could have been there in 1976, but Germany was still separated by a wall back in these days.
Wow, I did not know that about Zawinul.
I owned this album for years and knew every note and lick by heart. Never in my mind did I imagine a video of it existed until five or six years ago. It was like seeing a ghost to actually witness the music I have loved for so long. The album was actually released under Albert Manglesdorf's name and it's a little sad and unfair that it's now marketed as a Jaco concert. But, if it gets it a wider audience I guess that's OK.
Albert's use of multiphonics on trombone were the perfect complement to Jaco's harmonics and chording. This is amazing music that has stood and will continue to stand the test of time.
Thanks for the info.
Charles Tomaras, interesting, what instrument do you play?
Does anyone have the names of the songs just discovered this.
^^epic RUclips comment
I had the original album when I was deep in my Jaco phase in the early 80's..Loved how raw and free it was...
A friend of mine showed me this video 10 years ago and had it at least 10 years before that. To the people critiquing the hell out of this video with their nit-picking, I think if you actually liked and deeply knew anything about music, the words of your comments would be much more generous and insightful. If you gauge and compare this to Bebop, any of Miles Davis' electric bands, Eric Dolphy (who would have been amazing with these cats on that stage in that situation) or even to Mingus' more abstract works, well, that's your first mistake. First of all, the trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff, was truly amazing and other worldy with his harmonics and general approaches to his solos, Alphonse Mouzon was an amazing drummer who may be have been a bit underrated in the 1970s and was perfect for this situation from his skills level, to the funk, to the brim and his presence and clothing were the epitome of Afro-American fashion expression along with his high musical intelect; he covered all the bases, and Jaco was relaxed and really riding high as Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" was being released in 1977 after his 1976 first solo album and in the same year.. his first appearance on two tracks of Weather Report's "Black Market" album. The video displays one of Jaco's purist performances.., just in general; not necessarily perfect from a bass technique performance standpoint, but, that's what makes it even more engaging to watch.., still, effortless in its own way. It's just very interesting to view this as it appears that Jaco's mind was still relatively fresh, clean and intact. It's a great document for which to view and listen and study. Haters are gonna keep hatin', listeners are gonna to keep learnin'.
Great comment.
This is the best live Jaco stuff on YT IMO. He's really in great form and responding to the musicians around him in a pure way. Love it.
This is when Jaco was a pure improvisor. For me this is the height of his playing. He was later to change the world, but this is a great archive of when his playing was at it's most spontaneous for me.
david buda
david buda I agree with you! this is his best playing ever.Hard to copy!
I can't believe I am talking with one of my heroes. Hard copy.
Emmanuel Bris
Don't forget Word Mouth record. As Jaco loved J.S.Bach works, this record has clearly been influenced by the master composer. At least for me, when I listen Crisis you can contemplate The Well Tempered Klavier Alla Pastorius. I almost forgot, Bach was a huge improvisor either.
Every afternoon I have to chart my work for the day. It takes a couple of hours to do and I am usually left in peace - so I am able to enjoy some tunes while I work. Today I said to myself "what am I in the mood for?" as I scrolled possibilities on RUclips.
"Herbie? No. Miles? Nah did him yesterday....""
"Jaco. Yeah, that'll work".
In 58 years I had never heard of this recording or trio. One and a half hours later and I still haven't written a word. I'm stunned. Speechless.
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O yeah!!
3 Outlaws of jazz-fussion, 3 genious !!! RIP all of the 3, Thanks for sharing "YourFreeSelf !!!
Incredible evening at the Berlin Jazz Days/Berlin Philharmonic November 6, 1976...and I was there ;-))
...brilliant culture that gives us such an astounding musical document.
The musicians are obviously masters - breathtaking, really. Peak performances.
Also, the staging and the crew that filmed the event must be praised. Beautiful shots, showing the artist in relation to instrument, or the players communicating as a unit. Excellent shots and editing. Kudos to everone involved and those who attended for creating such art.
The trombonist has blown my mind. Must collect his music and research his life.
Alphonse proves one of the great modern players with this recording.
And Jaco! What, just before recoding with Joni (?), his first solo record about to drop? Prime footage of a true genius about to create a tsunami in the musical world.
Now that's The Trio of Doom. Amazing! KUDOS!
1) Foreign Fun 0:24 - 14:05
2) Accidental Meeting 14:29 - 23:47
3) Zores Mores 24:11 - 32:37
4) Trilogue 33:20 - 39:06
5) Portrait Of Tracy 39:39 - 43:42
6) Trio Song 44:13 - 50:50
7) Ant Steps on an Elephant's Toe 51:48 1:02:12
love jaco, but this is LOL
Thanks Carlos
@@stevenwisniewski1 how can you love a jazz bassist KNOWN for his impeccable improv and NOT like his IMPECCABLE improv?
I guess I understand. It's still probably ahead of you.
Someone is feeling very smug here
Oh thanks!!!!!!
I never thought at my age I'd run across something that would surprise me as much from this far back. Pastorius and Mouzon, I know.
I'd never even heard of Mangelsdorff.
Incredible.
I learn something new every time I watch Jaco!
Anyone that gives this video a thumbs-down, is expecting Jaco in their favorite box, and probably knows nothing about trombone, and what’s possible.
I played trombone all through college. But had just started bass at the end of high school. So of this is my shit right here.
This is most definitely a serious act of artistic inspiration.
sad that none of these fine fellas are still around, RIP to all
he passed in 2016
I saw Jaco several times with Weather Report back in the 70's, and with his Word Of Mouth Band at My Father's Place on Long Island back around the mid-80's. I loved the guy, and I miss him so much. It's like a family member died. :(
Edit: Jaco was one of the VERY few bass players that had PERFECT intonation on the fretless bass. I cry when I think about the way he died. It Still haunts me to this day...
He never died in spirit with this moment of inspiration! IMHO the greatest to ever grace the bass
nobody talked about Alphonse, his solo drumming is just crazy superior
I know it's creepy to chime in on a comment 10 months after the fact. i apologize. but you're right. Alphonse was as good as there has ever ever been. he was a big hero of John Bonham. which is pretty interesting really!
RIP Alphonse Mouzon.. he died a few years back. I was on his RUclips channel towards the bitter end, and he was posting the audio from his doctor visits online. Apparently his bung hole just completely rotted from the inside out. What a horrible way to go.
Shout out
@@suspiciouswatermelon7639 There is no promesses and just one événement in all lifes on heart (Spiritual Marxism)
Absolutely right, sir.
And love his badass hat!
Alphonse Mouzon, that;s some serious bad ass drumming man.
Godd to hear you're still active. This was such a great performance.
+Eric Van Buggenhaut.. Sadly he passed a little bit after the above post. This video is actually the last video he watched his YT account which is pretty wild. He Died on Christmas Day 2016.. RIP Alphonse!
Mouzon was one of the best drummers ever. His signature snare triplets let you know who was on the kit. His drumming on Patrick Moraz the Story of I was what turned me on to his playing. Sad that he passed.
I've been a jaco freak for 30 yrs or so this concert is blowing me away!! Alfonso is a brutal drummer. This is such a blessing from God Amen
@@EricVanBuggenhaut sorrowfully he is not alive.
Jaco at his absolute peak before the substances, Zawinul, and the effects of being a superstar and touring started breaking him down. Philly's baseball hat wearing era is magic - Forty years later and Portrait of Tracy is still fresh and unique. Thanks for posting this amazing footage.
Brilliant performance. This is Jaco at his peak. Sad to hear about Alphonse Mouzon passing away last month.
the original bass virtuoso with stellar musicians
Every time I come back to this concert it gets better. This sounds like the kind of music serious musicians play when there's no audience. Thanks for the post!
Yes....When I'm listening to these types of Jazz Cats I don't like ppl talking because I wanna hear every move they make. This is just another realm.
"Portrait of Tracy". Maybe the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
My wife's name. Like the song, she too is beautiful.
You can feel the emotion
A poem of musical notes, full of emotion.
Seriously
Love this vid. Jaco is on his game here and is miles ahead of anyone in '76.
This is a true gold mine to find from 76. And the film quality is really descent. What a great band, the musicians are skillfully timed. Thank You for posting and Thank You to RUclips
All three masters in a truly inspired gig. What a trio. And the sound of Jaco's bass is a thing of beauty.
Wow I could listen to this all day. Almost made me forget to leave for school right now!
39:50 Portrait of Tracy. I can listen to it forever till the end of my life.
It's amazing bass solo
edit Alphonso Mouzon drum solo @ 49:00
Sofia Noiti, its an addictive tune, thats for sure.
Tracy must be someone pretty ugly.
@@RackwitzG speaking from experience mate?
Albert is killing it with a great rhythm section.
Two notes come when a trombonist plays one and sings the other. That involves the use of harmonics. At best, it produces three notes. When two different notes are played together, they will generate a third note as their sum. Thus if one plays A at 110 cycles per second, and sings E at 165 cps, one will get the sum, C sharp, at 275, a nice fat A major triad. Mangelsdorff was brilliant at this.
Correction, at best it creates more than 3 notes. And when you sing an open 5th (A and E) the third doesn't ring out; you get more roots and 5ths
Play that A and raise the voice up from the E to an F# and the D will ring out.....second inversion D chord
Harry Last thanks for the explanations
Mangelsdorff was able to play up to nine notes at the same time due to overtone fracture.
Alphonse's drumming is something else. Wow!
+WJ777 Merci Beaucoup for your kind words. www.tenaciousrecords.com
Он только что завершил работу с Patrick Moraz, где участвовал и Jeff Berlin. "The Story of I", рекомендую😊
musicians like this... hear what isn't there, yet is.. very beautiful
awesome
this is the most BALLS i've ever seen in one concert....making rhythmically, harmonically,melodically dense music that's also inventive and widely improvised on these instruments is BEYOND my mortal comprehension
Hats off to these gents. Unbelievable shit these guys play, I love it!
Because Jaco was truly both motivated and captivated by going to Berlin back then in '76 and playing this monumental gig with Mangelsdorff with the late great phenomenal jazz-rock drummer :Alphonse Mouzon back then this was Jaco right at his most memorable, and embryonic experimental period when he had previously had just joined BS&T due to Bobby Columby Blood Sweat and Tears drumners recommendation, a band that had both Mike Stern on guitar ,Don Alias on congas and percussion etc David Clayton Thomas on lead vocals. I personally knew Jaco at this time had pulled records for him at Peaches Records & Tapes on Sunrise Blvd right next to Holiday Park in Lauderdale at 1500 E.Sunrise Blvd.where Jaco got the title for "Holiday for Pans" album/ CD release. This was a very vitally significant time for Jaco ,everyone at this time was into drummer Alphobse Mouzon due to his incredible album on Blue Note: "Mind Transplant" which we played non stop as musician employees at Peaches Records & Tapes ,Jaco had just made the Al DiMeola album with Al Mouzon on drums and Barry Miles on jeyboards: "Land of the Midnight Sun" for CBS ..he was really excited about going to Berlin and working with Albert Mangelsdorff and Al Mouzon and told me so in the classical/ opera section at Peaches. He clearly didn't like guitarists or dud he enjoy working with them ,so that working with DiMeola was a one-time thing and was a bit of a fluke for Jaco,he loved working with vocalists, orchestras etc his favorite records were Ornerte's "The Skies of America" on Columbia ,all of the Miles and Coltrane Impulse albums from the 60's with McCoy,Jimmy Garrison,Reggie Workman,Elaine Jones etc all of those Columbia 60's Miles lps with Ron Carter ,those were his practice lps and Jimmy,Reggie,Ron,Paul Chambers,Mongo Santamaria etc were Jaco's musical heroes and major musical influences .. Bob Bobbing would strut into my import dept to tell me Jaco stories as he grew up living nect door to Jaco and his brother. Jaco would walk around strut around the Amboy Dukes section in Rock and tell me that "This cat has ears like magnets man" referring to his engineer on his self-titled Epic debut Jaco Pastorius,referring to his great engineer / drummer : Dave Palmee ex drummer of The Amboy Dukes so it was a very powerfully magical period for Jaco and for that of myself aa well. You just had to be there.
It was monumental in forging Jaco-s musical future in progressive modern contemporary music case closed!: Brilliant music,brilliant creative time for everybody and everyone plain and simple Incredibly Killer Brilliant fun time for music
Pity he didn't stay in the avant-garde, instead of losing his mind playing that glorified calliope music with WR. OK, maybe a pit-stop with WR, a couple tours with them (a one-time thing, as you say) and then basta and on to things more interesting and edifying - with the cream of the European/British avant-gardists, for example. He'd already recorded with Bley, here he is with Mangelsdorff, could've lived in Paris or Darmstadt, made instructional tapes (that the whole world would've bought), played with Jutta Hipp, Misha Mengelberg, Tomasz Stanko - who knows who else? And stayed far away from that fascist butterball Zawinul.
This is just an awesome display of talent both on the part of each individual musician, and as a whole band. Prodigious. Unparalleled.
As a bass player I can say that Jaco is basically from another planet in terms of talent on bass, but the drummer and the trombone also both blew my mind in this performance, absolutely magnificent.
Three fine gentleman musicians. They follow and enhance what the other puts down. Not try to out do one another. Completely harmoniously entwined notes. Giving each man room for these great solos! The way it should be. No competition. Just sweet music.
RIP Alphonse and Jaco.. thanks for all the fantastic music.!!
Jaco was the best bassist ever, that is no contest . He's never been replaced and never will be . Really miss him...
I'm mean once you get to that level it starts to blend more into preference. Like Jaco, Ray Brown, Mingus, Ron Carter.
Opinions vary.
Needs more Slap like Les Claypool 😮
@@Heisenbrick stfu
It just does not get any better then this !!!!
Nothing like hearing three masters at work. Thanks for posting this show.
Listening again 4 months later.
Even more impressed.
I grew up with a father and son living right behind me -both playing the trombone.
I remember buying and hearing the lp back in the day. How wonderful it is to see it too!
Alphonse Mouzon is going crazy as well as Albert and Jaco :) It is what I call a jam ladies and gentlemen :)
Everytime I hear something new by Jaco, its as if I'm hearing him for the first time. His sound is just that fresh. Its a sound you know...
My God this is good.
I also never have seen a Trombone player better - more inventive - creative and "out of the box" in his style and playing.
Absolute masterpiece...incredible skills and feeling , all of them.
I may have commented to this video prior but Mouzon was a fucking monster of monsters. Jaco was a monster of monster as well. We were acquaintances in Ft. Laud. He would check all the working bassists out but he was looking for two drummers I just happened to have been working with in two different house bands. He would give bear hugs to bass players he thought were doing their own thing, could play a pocket. As influences we had Jemmott in common but my guy was Rainey and I would constantly throw in all my Rainey licks into any given tune which were mostly pop stuff of the day. Still I knew where to put it and that's what caught his ear. As a musician -- there remains no words to describe the being or what he brought to the world stage. There isn't a bassist out there alive in the same bags as he could play in who are remotely as funky. They can call it funk but they got no black in their soul. No Carribean roots as Jaco did. That kind of soul.
I'm guessing you know the Petersen brothers?
so habe ich alphonse mouzon kennen gelernt, nämlich mit zwei meiner lieblingsmusiker!! R.I.P.
Alphonse was im told a distant cousin whom ive never had the pleaser to meet. However being a bassist i have met jaco a couple of times. I just got the news of alphonse's passing. I wont pretent to have heard much of his music and was much more partial to jaco but of the 3 in this setting he (alphonse) comes off the most brilliant. I was at the candy store today 12-28-16 and saw carrie fisher passed and as i get home get an email regarding alphonse. I guess i had to see this concert again to see these wonderful artist. Rest in peace mr mouzon.
Jaco heard music no one else did and pulled it off...so fortunate to hear this!! Gifted has its 'side-affects'!! Jaco was unique as Joni Mitchell said!
Mouzon's the piano, Jaco's the horn and Albert's the bass.
hehe, I like how you think.
Yeah, Eman, it's a postmodernism . . .
@Grateful Varmints
Guitarist???
This is so ahead of it's time for then and now. it's like ballsiest form of free Jazz I've ever heard still has the same effect on as when I heard it about 5 years ago. I have never heard of a trio to this day that featured only Bass Drums and Trombone. it's almost like Jaco's use of Harmonics adds a 4th member to the band. almost as if he takes the role of a bass AND and some piano elements at certain points. crazy.
Maybe check out Bassdrumbone with Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, and Gerry Hemingway. Helias plays upright and the music is much more varied in terms of style (at turns free jazz, at turns groove, at turns hard-bopping swing). They're absolutely wonderful and have been putting out records for something like 30 years now.
There are others keeping it alive today like the Mats/Morgan Band.
dsvet Mats/Morgan Band is excellent, and I'd go further and say that the overall improvised music scene is certainly light years more robust and exciting than it ever was during Jaco's time, especially since fusion and smooth jazz are no longer the ridiculous commercial monstrosity subgenres that they were in the 1970s-1990s. What's going on right now (more DIY, more small labels, less bullshit) is definitely the best that fans of this music could ask for.
So innovative, curious, adventreous, explosive, just pure elegance of creating music at it's dancing
This is unbelievable! The depth of groove!
I caught Alphonse Mouzon's drumming at a small club in suburban Maryland in the mid '70's when he was playing with Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House. He was about as impressive as Billy Cobham with Mahavishnu we saw a year or two earlier.
Alphonse Mouzon's "Mind Transplant" is fantastic!!!!!
+Eric Sierra-Franco Tommy.
Awesomely great trio...RIP to three of the world's best.
This concert has a bit of a Zappaesque flavour to it at times...fantastic playing by all.
Três feras fazendo o melhor Jazz-fusion !!!
Obrigado por postar esse vídeo!!!
imagine seeing this back then!!!!
Much cheaper tickets back then
First time I ever saw Jaco reading charts! This was pre-Weather Report. I guess he was human after all! Lol
It was not pre-WR. He was in the band already and Zawinul OK'd Jaco stepping away from the tour/recording schedule because he respected the hell out of Manglesdorff and the producer.
RIP Alphonse Mouzon
Very few of us who want to share our soul through music, and try, forget the pain of delivering the package, Jaco brings it! Anyone who listens can only be inspired.
they did a recording on Deutsche Gramophone. Fantastic album. I also saw Albert at Montreux, must have been 79-80 with a trio (different set up) - mindblowing concert - The drummer was exstatic and they had to pick up the cymbals several times during the concert...they were falling - he hit them so hard..
In Jaco We Trust!
I got a chance to see Alphonse Muzon live with Larry Coryell and the 11th house at the Blue note in NYC in 2015... he was doing his thing!!! tremendous drummer
So, you're a much-needed-respected public intellectual, a supreme basketball player and you love Alphonse. Man, what can't you do? We live in desperate times. Please speak out more about jazz or whatever strikes you. Please. Thanks.
(PS I've not been to the Blue Note for many years, not since the Umbria Jazz Festival where my wife's cousin played drums. If I am mistaken for assuming who you are, please forgive me.)
The best Portrait of Tracy (live) to seen
Mind blowing musical creativity!
Very cool concert! The other players are a revelation and Jaco rules as usual.
Absolutely fantastic. What an intersting combo.
ただただ、天才に対し敬意と哀悼を捧げます。
amazing concert - amazing three men
mangelsdorff who invented this chord-like-playing by a trombone
jaco, crazy mad master professor of electric bass
and alphonse.. the 4th track trilogue, drum solo part between 38.15 - 38.26 !!!
man, I like Cobham, DeJohnette, great late Tony, others, but I've never heard such clearly played MELODY with roll technique by a drummer ! bad bad bad
+ss kurultay That was so nice of you to say that about me. Thanks a Million. If you're in LA, please come see me in Janaury 2016 in Long Beach, CA. THE ALPHONSE MOUZON JAZZ & SMOOTH JAZZ ALL-STAR BAND www.eventbrite.com/e/alphonse-mouzons-jazz-smooth-jazz-all-star-band-at-the-seabird-jazz-lounge-tickets-19727862568
Pastorius was 25 at the time.Jesus Christ
And don't we all miss him so. Thankfully such videos exist.
Wow this is exactly ten years before his passing, is scary to think of what is possible and what can happen within just ten years
@@ZOMBIELANDakaUSA Why do atheists have to be so cringe?
wow...real maestro.
This is a seminal recording, and for decades I have been listening to it. I never knew there was video (film) footage of it, though. So excited! Never thought I'd ever get to see this band. thanks for posting this one!!
If you understand the nature and mechanics of improvisational theory with melody, harmony, and rhythm, you'll understand everything that's happening here. If you don't, you can still enjoy it, and if you don't get it or enjoy it, that's cool too. This is about as advanced as it gets.
But don't disparage what you don't understand--cutting it down won't make you any taller.
Is that supposed to be a Trees reference lol
FUCKING PHENOMENAL!!!!!
I saw this in college. A professor that I knew had me over one night to watch it and drink.
....i remember loving the sound of the trombone and THISE DRUMS.....Jaco....Nuff said.
Then everything got fuzzy and i remember waking up and knowing that my professor rufied me. I don't know what he did to me....but it was....dirty. I have never gotten over it. ......i cry sometimes.
But, hey, he introduced me to this. So it wasnt all bad.....gay isnt wrong.
FUCKING HILARIOUS
That’s Jazz I guess 😂
That drummer is a goddamn beast.
+MajickPalindrome I've been called a Beast on the Drums so many times that I'm now believe that I am one. Thanks a Million. If you're in LA, please come see me in Janaury 2016 in Long Beach, CA.
THE ALPHONSE MOUZON JAZZ & SMOOTH JAZZ ALL-STAR BAND www.eventbrite.com/e/alphonse-mouzons-jazz-smooth-jazz-all-star-band-at-the-seabird-jazz-lounge-tickets-19727862568
+Alphonse Mouzon -Straight Animal
I honestly him to not be very good, everything he played is very very simple, just sounds difficult and it was just random shit
WALKER MACMILLAN Most great music and musician play random shit that sounds great- it's an art. It's also an art to build a successful career by making simple playing sound difficult and make something out of random shit - most us can do that. I concur with you 100%.
WALKER MACMILLAN Sounds like the typical line of either a non-musician; or someone that has to categorize talent due to an over-inflated ego. Which one are you?
Wow, just wow. Love you Jaco. Killer band as well.
Three like one. Outstanding.
Retired professional drummer from Los Angeles here, YUP, 70's jazz fusion, I cut my teeth on this genre, on bands like Return to Forever, Yellow Jackets, Spyro Gyra and many, many more.
Man, yellow Gretsch in high gloss, soooooo 70's!! So many cats played those, Alfonse here, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Simon Phillips and many more, a variable 'whose who'....
Albert Mangelsdorff !!!!! grande de grandes!!!!!
how have i not seen this yet
I am a big Jaco fan, but what this dude is doing with a trombone is just amazing!
I bought this album around’79.
I looked it up on Spotify a few months ago and now I’m looking at the video. Coooool man!!
It that specific sound that Jaco has, I keep coming back to. He is inevidable, one of a kind I love him with all my heart. And the solos melt me each and every time. No matter how much I listen to him hh.
Some of Jaco's lines in "Trio Song" reminded me of "Freedom Jazz Dance" and I kept hoping they'd launch into it.
Really great post man! Thanks for sharing.
Dopo la terza volta che guardo questo video, penso che sia il concerto più interessante di tutta la mia vita,,love Jaco❤
Was für ein mitreißendes Konzert dreier großartiger Jazzer!
when music was music...........so good video thx for share
so unique and expressive.
If you close your eyes you're just completely lost in time and space. Incredible music.
Music doesn't get any better than this. This is just heavenly.
Esse baterista é impressionante. Que trio! Lamentável foi a morte de Jaco.
omg Jaco! you're my inspiration...
Well then, that was mind-bendingly brilliant. The musicians are other worldly.
Kudos to the crew for such great work documenting the show. Great technical and artistic choices behind the camera, too. Best footage i've ever seen of Jaco. Alphonse is a monster, of course.
Must research Albert on trombone.
Astounding music.
Thanks for the upload!