ooooo....Have people seen this Jaco video yet?

blowabs · #1 12-15-2009, 08:49 AM

my gooooodness....funk personified:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b64Q...=youtube_gdata

This means Jaco played with Sly according to this then.....?!....

DWBass · #2 12-15-2009, 09:00 AM

I guess you gotta be a Jaco fan. It was okay. Didn't blow me away. I wish he would have played more R&B.

blowabs · #3 12-15-2009, 09:03 AM

....and so do I...and I think others as well....

standupright · #4 12-15-2009, 09:07 AM

mmmmmmm that was nice. thanks for sharing.

Jazz Ad · #5 12-15-2009, 09:14 AM

Well if there still were people to discuss the influence Rocco Prestia had over him, this shall end the discussion.

sir juice · #6 12-15-2009, 09:29 AM

i'd say definately more jerry jemmott that rocco prestia

blowabs · #7 12-15-2009, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by standupright

mmmmmmm that was nice. thanks for sharing.

Your welcome.

middlebit · #8 12-17-2009, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by blowabs

This means Jaco played with Sly according to this then.....?!....

The band is Tommy Strand and The Upper Hand ( I think). It's definitely not The Family Stone.

Dr. Cheese · #9 12-17-2009, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by DWBass

I guess you gotta be a Jaco fan. It was okay. Didn't blow me away. I wish he would have played more R&B.

+100, the solo just sounded like Jaco, and it did not fit the groove of that very funky song. His take on the Larry Graham bassline is more interesting. I would have liked to have heard that for a full song. It was cool hearing Jaco play with a more conventional tone.

Jamie_Funk · #10 12-17-2009, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

+100, the solo just sounded like Jaco, and it did not fit the groove of that very funky song. His take on the Larry Graham bassline is more interesting. I would have liked to have heard that for a full song. It was cool hearing Jaco play with a more conventional tone.

Ditto - Jaco could be crazy funky, but he wasn't on this track IMO. And the solo seemed quite disconnected from the vibe of the tune. Cool nonetheless, but I guess proof that even the greats are always mindblowing.....

J

The Lurker · #11 12-18-2009, 09:15 PM

I dunno.... it struck me as overplaying. The staccato 16th notes just didn't fit-- they were trying to push the song to be faster and busier than the rest of the band was going.

And no, there is no record of Jaco ever playing with Sly... and the Family Stone basically consisted of Sly, his drugs, a bucket of vomit, and an invisible person named Doreen who talked out of the toaster oven by the time Jaco hit it big.

ugly_bassplayer · #12 12-18-2009, 09:44 PM

I am huge jaco fan , but this was far from his best performance.
IMO.

blowabs · #13 12-18-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ugly_bassplayer

I am huge jaco fan , but this was far from his best performance.
IMO.

true. After listening to it 15x I see just the 1st 1/3 is movin'....wish there was more of J trying to groove R&B style.

billy ayers · #14 12-19-2009, 02:16 AM

2 years later, he woulda KILLED this solo spot.. here, he's lining up his grooves and ideas but he's slightly... not.. JACO quite yet.
shows that even the greats went through that awkward-colt phase, before emerging. great poignant stuff. like hearing Bird 2 years before his sky-splitting bop language.

Nivlem · #15 12-19-2009, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by billy ayers

2 years later, he woulda KILLED this solo spot.. here, he's lining up his grooves and ideas but he's slightly... not.. JACO quite yet.
shows that even the greats went through that awkward-colt phase, before emerging. great poignant stuff. like hearing Bird 2 years before his sky-splitting bop language.

This.

By the way, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bnckQ8mk-c

Ian Hunter's "All American Alien Boy". British Glam + Jaco ... Bass solo at about 1:30.

blowabs · #16 12-19-2009, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by billy ayers

2 years later, he woulda KILLED this solo spot.. here, he's lining up his grooves and ideas but he's slightly... not.. JACO quite yet.
shows that even the greats went through that awkward-colt phase, before emerging. great poignant stuff. like hearing Bird 2 years before his sky-splitting bop language.

Thanks Bill. So what year would you say that was then.

Jazzomaniac · #17 12-19-2009, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by blowabs

Thanks Bill. So what year would you say that was then.

This solo was recorded in 1971, four years before
the sessions that led to his debut-album.

Deep · #18 12-19-2009, 11:16 AM

He was raw at this time, but you can hear the brilliance behind his ideas and this was a time when he was working it all out and putting it all together. That's how it's done, especially back then, jammin' and more jammin' workin your **** out and going for it. Lots of great licks goin' on, stuff we take for granted now cuz we heard it all a bunch of times....but back then.....geez...it was like from another planet.

bassbrad · #19 12-21-2009, 12:45 PM

Just for props that trak was taken from the "Portrait of Jaco-the Early Years 1968-1978" 2 CD set on Holiday Park records featuring rare tracks and interviews with Jaco contemporaries and a nice booklet with photos and articles put together by his friend Bob Bobbing. IMO while not essential it is an excellent legit addtion to any Jaco fan's collection and far more worth while than a lot of the later career "bootleg" stuff.

narud · #20 12-21-2009, 01:14 PM

ok, so for you guys that dont think that solo was that happening and jaco just hadnt quite arrived yet, whats your opinion on this............
http://www.4shared.com/file/17823899...Lusitanos.html
solo starts about a minute and a half in.

"prime" era of jaco in 1976 with weather report. live solo on the wayne shorter tune "lusitanos".