Jaco singing.... never knew

[Gluvhand]

if you can play a simple blues like fannie mae better than jaco did in post #5 = speak up!

-or-

the cats who play that well are gigging right now... too busy to post on TB!

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some things are just funny and hero worship be damned

 

[J_Bass]

In the video @cxcxcx posted, while singing he's only checking his left hand when changing positions, and actually watching his left hand more when he's playing without singing.

Tangentially, does anyone else find it interesting that while he was best known for playing in groups with fairly sophisticated numbers, but as a bandleader he often leaned towards standards and twelve-bar blues? Or is my impression off about this?

I don't think so.

His second album "Word of Mouth" has original compositions, except Chromatic Fantasy and Blackbird.

Invitation album also has some originals.

Then we see lots of original music, but is spreaded out in various albums. Teresa, for example.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Sting played unlined, but his lines were way simpler than Jaco’s. Jack Bruce played simpler stuff singing most of the time too when he was on his unlined Warwick.

And someone like Esperanza Spalding comes along with her perfect pitch and soaring vocals and plays and sings with her eyes closed.

 

[JRA]

Esperanza Spalding comes along with her perfect pitch and soaring vocals and plays and sings with her eyes closed.

the bomb!

 

[HolmeBass]

And someone like Esperanza Spalding comes along with her perfect pitch and soaring vocals and plays and sings with her eyes closed.

In Brazilian Portugués, not even her native language.

I will point out that, in my opinion, no matter how simple or complex the music was, Jaco fearlessly tread wherever the soloist went, prodding, comforting, challenging, or agreeing, but never playing it safe. His sense of improvisational courage was spectacular.

 

[JimK]

The Word Of Mouth Band (small & large) is fantastic.
The arrangements, the improvisation, the jamming, etc...high, next level stuff.

The nearing-the-end Jaco did Standards, Pop tunes, & Blues...maybe it was quick, easier, & just more economical to have a pick-up band (good players, no less) improv on this material.
Pretty much a big reason why I don't own a lot of the Live In NYC discs or other late period Jaco boots.

 

[JimK]

Very nice. This may get me in trouble, but I like his piano-playing a lot better than his bass-work.

...never, I don't think, heard him on piano in a group.
He has played drum kit in a group (e.g. Weather Report).
I think there is a picture of Jaco on a Play Skol toy piano plucking out "Las Olas Brass" or "Dania".

 

[JimK]

Sing? hell I didn't know he could talk!

You're kidding, right? Everything I have read, heard...he never shut up!

 

[J_Bass]

...never, I don't think, heard him on piano in a group.
He has played drum kit in a group (e.g. Weather Report).
I think there is a picture of Jaco on a Play Skol toy piano plucking out "Las Olas Brass" or "Dania".

The video with Toots is the only one I know of him playing piano, too.




It's Herbie Hancock playing on "Forgotten Love".

Jaco does the drums on "Teen Town".

Are there more recorded tracks with him playing other instruments?

 

[JimK]

The video with Toots is the only one I know of him playing piano, too.

It's Herbie Hancock playing on "Forgotten Love".

Jaco does the drums on "Teen Town".

Any more recorded tracks with him playing other instruments?

Weather Report's 8:30 album...Jaco plays drums on "Brown Street" & "8:30".
He may have a drum track or 2 on Mr.Gone, as well.
I wiki'd the Ian Hunter album. Sez Jaco played guitar on "God (Take One)".

 

[J_Bass]

Weather Report's 8:30 album...Jaco plays drums on "Brown Street" & "8:30".
He may have a drum track or 2 on Mr.Gone, as well.
I wiki'd the Ian Hunter album. Sez Jaco played guitar on "God (Take One)".

Thanks.

I have to check that last one!

 

[JimK]

Thanks.

I have to check that last one!

Yeah, me too. I bought this years ago as an Import & never really dug it. Aynsley Dunbar is the drummer. I like to hear him & Jaco together. Wiki has Jerry Weems on guitar...IIRC, didn't he fill in briefly with the Edgar Winter Group after Ronnie Montrose & just prior to Rick Derringer?

 

[5StringBlues]

Rumor has it he also may have pooped.

Solid evidence has not been found tho.

 

[glocke1]

You're kidding, right? Everything I have read, heard...he never shut up!

haha...yes kidding.

I just never have seen a video where he talks...

 

[Chickenwheels]

I love Jaco, but I’m on a different path.
I love his solo album, Hejira, and 8.30 in particular.
I read the Jaco book three times in a row. The sadness at the end of the book made me go back and re-read for the joy at the start.
He was certainly a unique and beautiful human.