Recent content by PahaPeikko

I've been looking through some earlier Jaco threads and the "Jaco on Donna Lee. Is it improvised or not?" is very informative. I also realized what a great effort Roy Vogt has made to shed some light on this 'getting Jaco' issue. On that thread Roy gives a link to Rick Suchow's page where there...

I'm sorry to be blowing into this fading camp fire, but one question struck me. Jaco had such a revolutionary harmonic and melodic approaches to creating of bass lines that I wonder his influence on DB players. I was not able to find any prime examples. The Italian Maurizio Rolli was the...

I'm sorry Ron. I didn't know that you had such a close relationship with Jaco. And what comes to my opinions be aware that I'm much lesser musician and especially theorist than you. Music is such an abstract artform, deviations of air preassure which then are processed in the brains, better...

Thanks JimK for those db recollections because the number of my downbeats (no pun intended) is scarce, but I found one more, Feb 22, 1979. There is a review of the WR concert at Santa Monica Civic. At first Mr. Gone (spelled Z-a-w-i-n-u-l) album is called pompous preening and sterilized...

Thanks Ron for your links. I also dug up some old Down Beat mags. On August 12, 1976 there is a review of Jaco's solo album (four stars). Especially his compositional and unique voicing talents are praised, but Donna Lee and Portait of Tracy are considered more as technical showiness. Less...

As original poster I was amazed and a bit frightened when I noticed after a few days' absence from TB, that there was such a many-sided conversation going on and quite civilized one. The talk has spread out into various paths nearly all of them giving some extra information on the complex Jaco...

I happened to bump into this Jaco clip of Joni Mithell era which have stirred conversation about the way Jaco is playing behind soloists. Here's a couple of the most opposite, but also well-founded views on Tube of which neither is totally right or wrong or what do you think...

Although right sounding image and strong opinions are surely nicer than boring facts, I'd still like to place some info on this slightly sore wound. Mojo magazine (Dec. 2005) has a fine article of Jimi's early years before stardom, great photos,too. In Jimi's class picture of '55 one can see...

To mess up things more I'd like to clarify some issues. I'll present some comments from literal sources. The always polite B.B. King said: 'Jimi played blues, and he did it well; he just did it Jimi Hendrix's way.' (Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic). Buddy Guy wrote in his book about playing...