Jaco on a Wal

[Ric Vice]

As I get older this is the Jaco I’m more attuned to.

The Wal Bass sounds lovely, he’s playing all the right note’s, as with any emulation something’s nor quit4 the same. I don’ t think I could do any better.

 

[Ric Vice]

Jimmy Haslip probably as close to Jaco’s true spirit as most players ever got. Just my take.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Here’s what I see. This player plucks the strings vertically, like Geddy Lee but unlike him in the sense he’s playing over the back pickup here.

Jaco plucked the strings downward, towards the pickup, which he referred to as “cutting the string” according to a write up I once saw on Marcus Miller’s website.

Neither approach is more correct than the other (that I know of) but I imagine Jaco’s approach might carry a bit more motion economy and may explain why this guy sounds just the slightest bit ponderous playing that line.

Bass sure sounds good though.

I never said he wasn’t good, I said right hand technique was not going to yield Jaco style tone.

 

[Altitude]

I never said he wasn’t good, I said right hand technique was not going to yield Jaco style tone.

I also didn’t say he wasn’t good. I think I was adding color comment in support of your point.

 

[stevensivak]

As I get older this is the Jaco I’m more attuned to.

The Wal Bass sounds lovely, he’s playing all the right note’s, as with any emulation something’s nor quit4 the same. I don’ t think I could do any better.

What a set of pipes..... forget the bass playin.... but that is a tough song to even imagine a bass line....

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Jimmy Haslip probably as close to Jaco’s true spirit as most players ever got. Just my take.

If I remember correctly, Jimmy Haslip was a student of Jaco for a while.

 

[Jason Sypher]

As I get older this is the Jaco I’m more attuned to.

The Wal Bass sounds lovely, he’s playing all the right note’s, as with any emulation something’s nor quit4 the same. I don’ t think I could do any better.

I watch that California show with Jaco a few times a year. I love him as an accompanist.