Jaco Solo cover tunes

[babaseen]

This is a post I've been meaning to start for awhile now. Basically I am interested in all the "covers" Jaco quotes in his solo playing (unaccompanied) that has been recorded. To get it started (with some obvious ones to get those out of the way, but I'm more interested in some of the "not so" obvious)...

Donna Lee - Charlie Parker
Dexterity - Charlie Parker
Blackbird - The Beatles
Third Stone from the Sun - Jimi Hendrix
Alfie - Dionne Warwick
Sound of Music - Rodgers & Hammerstein

 

[bkbirge]

IIRC he liked to quote Louie Louie sometimes, often accompanied by distortion and feedback. I think some of the later 'bar' recordings capture him doing a lot of this type of thing. Haven't listened in awhile so I might be mis-remembering.

 

[studioblogic]

"If I only had a brain" was one of his favorites.

 

[Hoover]

the 3rd phrase of Jaco's solo on "Havona" quotes the bassoon line from the opening of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps"

 

[RHFusillo]

the 3rd phrase of Jaco's solo on "Havona" quotes the bassoon line from the opening of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps"

Also quoted by Jaco in Joni Mitchell's "Talk to Me"

 

[pedro]

He quoted Tommy Cogbill's great bassline to 'Funky Broadway' quite a bit IIRC.

 

[babaseen]

OK I give up, name this tune...I tried my memory banks and searched the net but I can't find a clue. What tune is this? Where does it come from, a TV show a movie...please help before I go off the deep end.
Thanks...but ya'll have to probably been "Born in the 50s" to know

 

[pedro]

OK I give up, name this tune...I tried my memory banks and searched the net but I can't find a clue. What tune is this? Where does it come from, a TV show a movie...please help before I go off the deep end.
Thanks...but ya'll have to probably been "Born in the 50s" to know

It doesn't sound remote familiar to me. Sorry.

 

[dougjwray]

"Holiday for Strings", written, I believe, by David Rose, the same guy who composed "The Stripper."
(I was born in 1957.)

 

[babaseen]

Doug;
Thank you very much, you just made my day!
It's from the Red Skelton Show which I remember now that you loosened the brain cramp.
--Tom

 

[VroomVroom]

In terms of standards, he often quoted the first bar or two of "Invitation" - and interestingly, his m7 ostinato on that tune was/became one of his signature riffs.

Good idea for a thread. That short little mp3 above is the perfect example of Jaco's attack. Each note is just pronounced perfectly.

 

[Joe Garage]

Great thread!

BTW from what Jaco album is that live recording?

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

He quoted the melody of What's if all about Alfie in his instructional video and a few other lines of Jemmots.

 

[babaseen]

BTW from what Jaco album is that live recording?

Live from the Players Club...last track, Early Slang

 

[babaseen]

Sing A Simple Song - Sly and the Family Stone
Had to Cry Today - Blind Faith
Them Changes - Buddy Miles

 

[Oric]

"If I only had a brain" was one of his favorites.

I have played this on local television on tuba. One of my proudest moments.