6 Degrees of Jaco Pastorius

[MikeyFingers]

A new forum game from the guy who brought you Song Uno. Don't know if this will take off as well as that one did, but it's worth a try. Being a bass players forum, I figured there's enough Jaco fans and jazzheads here that this could actually work.
If you've ever played the Kevin Bacon version of this, you know what's about to happen.

Step 1: Name a musician, any musician.
Step 2: The next poster will try to link that musician to Jaco Pastorius via all the other musicians they have played with. If you get stuck in the chain, let the next person try to pick it up.
Step 3: When a chain has been completed, whoever finishes it will post a new musician to start the next round.

Pretty simple I think. And it's quite a fact that Jaco played with enough big names in his time that this shouldn't be too hard to do.

Example:
Stanley Clarke.
Stanley played with Al Dimeola in Return to Forever.
Jaco played for Al DiMeola on his "Golden Dawn Suite", from his solo album "Land of the Midnight Sun".
Done! See? Not so hard.

The longer the chain, the more fun. Try not to cheat, but it's understandable if a little Google/Wiki research is necessary.
Good luck folks.

I'll start things out fairly easy. ROUND 1, DING DING

Miles Davis

[plankspanker13]

Miles played with Joe Zawinul, who in turn, played with Jaco in Weather Report.

ROUND 2: Chick Corea

[bassbrad]

Lenny White was the drummer on Jaco's 1 recording and also in Return To forever, easy.

Here's one maybe a little harder


Round Three: Jimmy Haslip

[Schlyder]

C. Corea also played with Return to Forever.

Corea>>> DiMeola>>>>Jaco


next up .... Eric Clapton

[Rookwood]

Jimmy Haslip ->Alan Holdsworth -> Tony Williams -> Miles Davis-> Josef Zawinul -> Jaco.

How about Ray Charles?

Originally Posted by bassbrad

Lenny White was the drummer on Jaco's 1 recording and also in Return To forever, easy.

Here's one maybe a little harder


Round Three: Jimmy Haslip

[Rookwood]

Eric Clapton -> George Harrison -> Billy Preston -> Quincy Jones -> Miles Davis -> Josef Zawinul -> Jaco.

Originally Posted by Schlyder

C. Corea also played with Return to Forever.

Corea>>> DiMeola>>>>Jaco


next up .... Eric Clapton

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by Rookwood

Jimmy Haslip ->Alan Holdsworth -> Tony Williams -> Miles Davis-> Josef Zawinul -> Jaco.

How about Ray Charles?

Ray Charles->Quincy Jones->Miles Davis-> Joe Zawinul->Jaco

Here's another (perhaps long winded) one:

John Petrucci

[MikeyFingers]

John Petrucci --> Tony Levin --> Steve Gadd --> Chick Corea --> Al DiMeola --> Jaco Pastorius

GOOD ONE!

How about.....

Stevie Wonder

[champbassist]

Stevie Wonder->Quincy Jones->Miles Davis-> Joe Zawinul->Jaco

Originally Posted by MikeyFingers

John Petrucci --> Tony Levin --> Steve Gadd --> Chick Corea --> Al DiMeola --> Jaco Pastorius

I was thinking waaay too long.

Petrucci->Satriani->Hamm->Frank Gambale->Allan Holdsworth->Bill Bruford->Al Di Meola->Jaco

I have a feeling this thread will get much less interesting as it wears on.

How about Sting?

[that1guy222]

Sting-Vinnie Colaiuta-Herbie Hancock-Jaco

How about James Jamerson?

[Duuuuuuuuuude]

Sting->Gil Evens->Miles->Zawinul->Jaco

Next: Radiohead

[Rookwood]

Originally Posted by champbassist

How about Sting?

Sting->Branford Marsalis->Herbie Hancock->Jaco

Originally Posted by champbassist

I have a feeling this thread will get much less interesting as it wears on.

Yeah - what do you do to spice it up? Jazz musicians are so interconnected, and once you get an influential 'hub' person like Miles or Quincy or Zappa in the mix, it really reduces the number of degrees of separation.

Do you go for radically different genres? What about Sid Vicious?

[camiloochoa]

sting-- christian mc bride -- pat metheny -- jaco

[Duuuuuuuuuude]

Jammerson->Holland-Dozier-Holland->Michael Jackson->Quincy->Miles->Zawinul->Jaco

Next one: Radiohead

[Duuuuuuuuuude]

Sid Vicious->Johnny Rotten->Jah Wobble->Pharoah Sanders->Stanley Clark->Al DiMeola->Jaco

[Duuuuuuuuuude]

Or just for the fun of it:

Sid Vicious->Johnny Rotten->Jah Wobble->The Edge->Daneil Lanois->Niel Young->Crosby Stills & Nash->Jerry Garcia->Bob Weir->Brian Melvin->Jaco

[line6man]

Steve Vai.

[Duuuuuuuuuude]

Steve Vai->David Lee Roth->Eddie Van Halen->Michael Jackson->Quincy Jones->Miles->Don Alias->Jaco

[ghostsontheroad]

John Paul Jones...

[pklima]

Originally Posted by Rookwood

Do you go for radically different genres? What about Sid Vicious?

Now that one was interesting. So how about Garth Brooks?