I LOL'd.
For those not in the know, Jaco did not play bass on Holiday for Pans, IIRC.
I really liked Jaco's work with Joni Mitchell.
Heavy Weather is also a great album.
I would just listen to it all chronologically.
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Jaco's best album(s)
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I LOL'd.
For those not in the know, Jaco did not play bass on Holiday for Pans, IIRC.
I really liked Jaco's work with Joni Mitchell.
Heavy Weather is also a great album.
I would just listen to it all chronologically.
Jaco live is most of my favourite material-
Weather Report's 8:30
Weather Report's Live And Unreleased...possibly the best version of "Teen Town" out there.
Jaco's 30th Birthday Concert...Jaco, drums, & all those horns.
Jaco's Invitation (even better, the 2-disc version called Twins)
Joni's Shadows & Light...damn, Jaco can fit that make his stuff work with a Pop-Folk-Rock songstress?
The "new" old Live stuff coming out is very enjoyable, too. Some of these tracks include Jaco's stint with Woodchuck, Tommy Strand, & Wayne Cochran. Hopefully, the single disc versions of these will see some light very soon.
Least favorites-
...any of those Jaco Live in NYC discs. I bought the 1st couple immediately upon seeing them in a local record store & was completely bummed out. Thankfully, I pre-listened to the PDB disc Jerry mentioned (pre-listening saved me about $25 on that one).
Weather Report's 8:30
Weather Report's Live And Unreleased...possibly the best version of "Teen Town" out there.
Jaco's 30th Birthday Concert...Jaco, drums, & all those horns.
Jaco's Invitation (even better, the 2-disc version called Twins)
Joni's Shadows & Light...damn, Jaco can fit that make his stuff work with a Pop-Folk-Rock songstress?
The "new" old Live stuff coming out is very enjoyable, too. Some of these tracks include Jaco's stint with Woodchuck, Tommy Strand, & Wayne Cochran. Hopefully, the single disc versions of these will see some light very soon.
Least favorites-
...any of those Jaco Live in NYC discs. I bought the 1st couple immediately upon seeing them in a local record store & was completely bummed out. Thankfully, I pre-listened to the PDB disc Jerry mentioned (pre-listening saved me about $25 on that one).
My personnal favorites:
-Jaco (s/t)
-Birthday Concert (live album)
-Invitation (live album)
-Word of mouth
-Joni Mitchell's Mingus (Jaco plays as sideman & arranged Dry cleaner from De Moines)
-Jaco (s/t)
-Birthday Concert (live album)
-Invitation (live album)
-Word of mouth
-Joni Mitchell's Mingus (Jaco plays as sideman & arranged Dry cleaner from De Moines)
That one is very overlooked...sometimes it's a Bruce Ditmas record while sometimes, it's a Paul Bley record.
Definitely worth it if you can find it at a reasonable cost.
BTW, Trilogue can be had cheap on iTunes.
...and the youtube videos of that trio are great!
The first recording of jaco i ever heard was joni mitchell's shadows and light, which i find amazing. the mix of joni's delicacy and jaco's sound just blew my mind. I remember staying up just listening to side 2 of the lp version, which was my favourite...
Of the bootlegs from Jaco's "crazy" period before his death, I dig the Standards Zone piano trio album.
I actually just grabbed this on iTunes (I think it's out of print on CD). Haven't been able to give it a proper listen yet, but really looking forward to it.
I also bought Brian Melvin's Standards Zone, which is a trio disc Jaco did in '86 after Melvin had him released from Bellevue. That was an eBay buy that won't be here for a week or so. It's jazz standards, and the reviews I've read say Jaco's playing is a little over-the-top for the tunes, but still really solid.
For what I know well, I think Bright Size Life and Birthday Concert get the most plays these days. Bright Size Life is a great record.
i have more than 30 cds, either jaco's cd's or cd's that he is on including all of the live in new york club stuff. i would have to agree with the people that said his debut from 1976, weather report heavy weather ( i think my all time favorite album/cd ), joni mitchell shadow's and light ( both the double cd and the DVD ) and his cd honestly. honestly is a cd made up of the jams jaco was doing onstage during his tour of italy in 1986. every night he would have a spotlight in which he would get up with a looper ( i think an old mxr digital delay pedal ) and he would do some improvising, unaccompanied. listening to him playing with joni is simply amazing. the beautiful way he accompanies her music is too much to believe at times - listen to in france the kiss on main street or coyote - amazing, heavy weather- what can be said i think it is incredible and a must have - i first bought it in 1978 and my hair still stands in end when i hear it - a remark you made is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. his debut, what can be said - the best debut album for any bass player and could be one of the best debut albums of all time.
here are some interesting weather report and jaco resources
Link Removed JACO PASTORIUS UNISSUED LIVE RECORDINGS
http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/ weather report the annotated discography
here are some interesting weather report and jaco resources
Link Removed JACO PASTORIUS UNISSUED LIVE RECORDINGS
http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/ weather report the annotated discography
other than cannonball and barbary coast its all alphonso on black market. ive listened to that album way more times than should be allowed in the last 25 years or so!
That ONE You-Tube link provides a treasure trove of stuff I have never seen. Thanks for posting.
I dig Heavy Weather just because the songs are composed and limited in their scope...leaving one wanting more.
I dig Heavy Weather just because the songs are composed and limited in their scope...leaving one wanting more.
+1 Forgot the exact mix of Alphonso and Jaco, but it was how many of us first heard Jaco (I didn't investigate Bright Size Life until I had heard Black Market). Other than the Joni stuff, IMO Jaco's best work on those tracks!
i tried my hardest to listen to the joni stuff. the bass playing is interesting, but i cant get past the fact im listening to joni mitchell
to actually answer the question. weather report's heavy weather,night passage and pat's bright size life are the albums i listen to when i want to listen to jaco. i geeked out on the bass work on those albums pretty hard and theyre in his strong suit. jazz and fusion. one of the best things that ever happened to my own playing was stopping trying to play funk/r&b like jaco and started trying to steal stuff from bootsy,paul jackson,verdine white, etc
Joni Mitchell's "Shadows and Light" is my favorite Jaco performance. It just seems like the entire band works so well together.
Well, according to Charles Mingus...she was a chick with balls. Pretty high praise, no?i tried my hardest to listen to the joni stuff. the bass playing is interesting, but i cant get past the fact im listening to joni mitchell
FWIW, Miles Of Aisles is another Joni does Jazz musicians live album...the L.A. Express w/ Tom Scott is the backing band.
i tried my hardest to listen to the joni stuff. the bass playing is interesting, but i cant get past the fact im listening to joni mitchell
to actually answer the question. weather report's heavy weather,night passage and pat's bright size life are the albums i listen to when i want to listen to jaco. i geeked out on the bass work on those albums pretty hard and theyre in his strong suit. jazz and fusion. one of the best things that ever happened to my own playing was stopping trying to play funk/r&b like jaco and started trying to steal stuff from bootsy,paul jackson,verdine white, etc
+1 I had the wonderful experience of becoming 'aware' of music at an adult level in the mid 70's (I graduated from high school in 75). We were all into Yes, and Ambrosia and every other damn thing, and then Black Market hit, and we were literally blown away. Black Market, Romantic Warrior (Chick), Heavy Weather, the Mahavishu stuff, and then a bit later, the Metheny White album and Blow by Blow, along with Spectrum (Cobham), just really set the entire tone for about a decade's worth of playing for me.
I always totally loved Joni, and remember when Pat and Jaco did the Shadows and Light thing, which also blew us away a bit later. I totally love Joni, but totally agree she is an acquired taste. I literally bought everything she did from Hejira onward (Night Ride Home is one of the best pop albums every recorded IMO).
Anyway, there are few times when you are 'at the right place at the right time' (i.e., coming of age when the music changes), and not that many of us have experienced it. Bop in the mid 40's, the beginning of rock in the mid 50's or so, the 'singer/songwriter' thing in the mid 60's to early 70's, and the fusion thing, from the late sixties with Miles to the GLORIOUS mid 70's (my 'revelation' period).
Anyway, IMO, and old guy musings, but it was pretty cool to play Black Market in a bar and have people not only recognize the tune, but dig it. Those days are gone, as now I spend most of my time making sure I play even eighth notes matching a track of Lady Gaga tunes
i tried my hardest to listen to the joni stuff. the bass playing is interesting, but i cant get past the fact im listening to joni mitchell
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Anyway, IMO, and old guy musings, but it was pretty cool to play Black Market in a bar and have people not only recognize the tune, but dig it. Those days are gone, as now I spend most of my time making sure I play even eight notes matching a track of Lady Gaga tunes
Heh! I played the head to Black Market last Thursday for a couple of hundred hipster kids (mostly) as the intro to an original and I doubt more than 5 of 'em recognized it. But they twitched pretty readily, at least.
+1 to Shadows And Light. Seeing a date on that tour was quite a treat.
+1 I had the wonderful experience of become 'aware' of music at an adult level in the mid 70's (I graduated from high school in 75). We were all into Yes, and Ambrosia and every other damn thing, and then Black Market hit, and we were literally blown away. Black Market, Romantic Warrior (Chick), Heavy Weather, the Mahavishu stuff, and then a bit later, the Metheny White album and Blow by Blow, along with Spectrum (Cobham), just really set the entire tone for about a decade's worth of playing for me.
I always totally loved Joni, and remember when Pat and Jaco did the Shadows and Light thing, which also blew us away a bit later. I totally love Joni, but totally agree she is an acquired taste. I literally bought everything she did from Hejira onward (Night Ride Home is one of the best pop albums every recorded IMO).
Anyway, there are few times when you are 'at the right place at the right time' (i.e., coming of age when the music changes), and not that many of us have experienced it. Bop in the mid 40's, the beginning of rock in the mid 50's or so, the 'singer/songwriter' thing in the mid 60's to early 70's, and the fusion thing, from the late sixties with Miles to the GLORIOUS mid 70's (my 'revelation' period).
Anyway, IMO, and old guy musings, but it was pretty cool to play Black Market in a bar and have people not only recognize the tune, but dig it. Those days are gone, as now I spend most of my time making sure I play even eight notes matching a track of Lady Gaga tunes
Kinda the same for me, the mid-70's were a second awakening for me when it came to music.
