Jaco impro

[craigmack1979]

memorized licks can be seen in ALL jazz players solos, its part of the style of music. most musicians may try and limit how much of it they use and try to play alot of spontaneous stuff instead. Most of whats out there is a combination off both, like the Jaco stuff.

Its about using what you know to express yourself. memorized licks are a big part of that.

look at Charlie Parker, he had one lick that he played in almost every single solo. Why? because he wanted to. It was his signature lick. and it was/is cool.

jaco isnt only considered one of the best bass players ever only because of his improvisational skill(which he had a lot of by the way). He pretty much brought the electric bass into jazz. that's a big deal. In donna lee, he not only plays classic bebop licks, but uses his bass to emulate the articulation and stylistic mannerisms of a horn. On top of that he has countless very original and interesting compositions in numerous styles.

chew on that. Great comment !!! When I saw the idiot post Jaco was crappy I damn near crapped myself. I immediately knew the person making that ludicrous comment was a hater and I'm can't play at all

 

[craigmack1979]

You can't hear how formulaic his lines sound? A few fast pentatonics and a bunch of blind grabs for an extra note that might have a chance of sounding okay? Please.[/QUOTE you sound stupid !

 

[Snarf]

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I was wrong. This is a very old thread, about 12 years have passed. Younger me was a bit rigid in his thinking. A lot of Jaco's music was not to my personal taste. My way of thinking used to be "If I don't like it, it's awful and the musicians are bad and I have to think of criticisms."

 

[craigmack1979]

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I was wrong. This is a very old thread, about 12 years have passed. Younger me was a bit rigid in his thinking. A lot of Jaco's music was not to my personal taste. My way of thinking used to be "If I don't like it, it's awful and the musicians are bad and I have to think of criticisms."

Thanks for responding as we get older we become wiser !! God bless you

 

[Kaa]

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I was wrong. This is a very old thread, about 12 years have passed. Younger me was a bit rigid in his thinking. A lot of Jaco's music was not to my personal taste. My way of thinking used to be "If I don't like it, it's awful and the musicians are bad and I have to think of criticisms."

Gotta give this a "like", for a response 12 years in the forming. We change, our tastes change, our views change.

 

[jerry]

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I was wrong. This is a very old thread, about 12 years have passed. Younger me was a bit rigid in his thinking. A lot of Jaco's music was not to my personal taste. My way of thinking used to be "If I don't like it, it's awful and the musicians are bad and I have to think of criticisms."

I've said some really dumb/stupid/ignorant stuff on this site for many years, being able to evolve and change our minds about issues is a beautiful thing, more people should try it. Rigid thinking has no place in art!

 

[pdbass]

Just gonna leave this here...

 

[shojii]

So I'm going to go ahead and say that I was wrong. This is a very old thread, about 12 years have passed. Younger me was a bit rigid in his thinking. A lot of Jaco's music was not to my personal taste. My way of thinking used to be "If I don't like it, it's awful and the musicians are bad and I have to think of criticisms."

So true and well said. We are who we are, not who we were...