Joanie's work with Pat Methany and Jaco was the pinnacle of her career, in my opinion. Outstanding music on a very high level. Glad I was alive to hear it. No popular music before or after came close
Pat Metheny said it best: "I wish people would just quit trying to imitate Jaco. That'll never happen again. No one's ever gonna do anything like that again."
His approach of endless possibilities is what has inspired us. Very inventive and melodic approach. His sound is unique. Every other jazzbass player trying to emulate him sounds quite different than Jacob
Have studied Joni, Jaco and Mclaughlin my whole life, and even though I've never made a dime in the music business, I am rich beyond belief! Thank you all.
One of the greatest videos ever made was Joni's "Shadows and Light" with Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker Don Alias and Lyle Mays. They performed a masterpiece.
Practically no singer active today could hope to assemble such an amazing and star-studded backing band for a tour. The music industry today doesn't allow it.
I was a big fan of Weather Report and had been listening to the Shadows and Light album for years but that concert video was the first time I actually saw Jaco play. Joni had the greatest musicians backing her. And it's still on youtube.
Joni Mitchell is technically superior ; but her innovative use of tunings puts her in a class I call EXTRAORDINARY . I can only think of one other guitar player that occupies a similar place in the history of guitar innovations and that is Roy Buchanan ❤
Such a tragic story, such otherworldly brilliance and beauty! Thank goodness Joni tracked him down, I can't imagine that band not existing!! My dear friend and the guitarist in my high school band was walking home from a rehearsal one day in the East Village with his jazz band and they passed a homeless looking guy sitting on the sidewalk, one of them said, "man that looks like Jaco" and the guy yelled, "yeah that's me, the notorious Pastorious!" They stopped, not convinced, but he talked my friend into handing his guitar over... and proceeded to blow their minds. My friend was very shaken by this experience, thrilled and saddened to the core. It's a crazy beautiful world.
The passive destruction of enormous promise tends to shatter the myths we tell about 'the poet - the story teller - the musician. Another chapter in the Book !
After he burst onto the stage in 1976 everybody* wanted to have him on their records...Joni was early, of course. One of the oddest things is that a few years later she had ALL of Weather Report, minus Joe Zawinul, as her backing band in the studio. WR had a contract clause at the time that no outside album could have more than one WR member on it. I have no idea how Joni got around that!
My brother knew Jaco very well, Randy, and Jaco would come over for cookouts and Thanksgiving where I remember all of us out front of my mother's house throwing football, great times. Jaco was always very friendly to me.. So sad what happened. RIP Jaco Thanks for the memories....
Joni Mitchell has always been an underrated guitarist, perhaps overshadowed by her singing. But in the old days when musicians lived and hung out in Laurel Canyon, Eric Clapton would visit and sit at her feet, marveling at her guitar technique. That band with Pastorius and Metheny were like a jazz super group that in that moment of musical history, were the platinum standard of vocal jazz.
... a picture of one blue, motel room ... Away from many of life's middleclass circumstances ... They must had been lovers, at least ... Soulmates ... Once Jaco left, Joni seemed not to be interested in giving, not like be4 ... The "Mingus" album was their mutual full circle ... God Bless Jaco ... or ... A God less. While ...Joni is a survivor , a traveller... It is never easy to be brave ...
Every Joni Mitchell album is a must have. If you like Jaco, have you checked out Joni's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter? Jaco bumped up his tracks on the album without Joni's knowledge. Can't remember how she put it but it was something like she is singing on Jaco's songs or something like that.
To me, it's literally the best popular album ever made. It is through-composed: literally a travelogue populated by the most amazing cast of characters, poetry on the level of a Dylan Thomas, harmonies you've never heard but that work perfectly, and Jaco's astonishing bass. "Blue" is a phenomenal collection of songs, but "Hejira" is, well, it's genius.
there is something about his bass sound and her voice being perfect together. I have listen/watched that live show like 20 times. He is so pitch perfect and fits in perfectly.
Been watching this since the early 90’s! One of the greatest concerts ever! The best is Joni smiling ear to ear the whole time! She knew they were killin!
Yes, she looks completely at home with the show and not feeling upstaged at all. Her dignified demeanour is really striking - and this was at a time when it was much more rare with women leading their own band and writing their own music than it would be thirty years later.
I was just thinking, this is clearly one of the greatest of all time. Watched a half dozen times. Jaco, glad to have seen him with Weather Report, Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, 1979 or 1980ish.
@@JSkalman Yes, it's such an all-star backing band, a phenomenal amount of talent (and genius) gathered on that stage - and they manage to work together seamlessly! I don't think a backing band like that would have been possible to get together for a live tour now, at least not without booking them a couple of years in advance - the music industry has changed so much.
There are people who are not meant for longevity because their star is too bright and it burns out like a Nova, however what they do lasts forever, Jaco was one of those people.
I love this. I heard the news about Jaco while in a church on Sunday morning. I couldn’t help it, I wept. If anyone has not watched the entire shadows and light concert or heard the record, I highly recommend you do both. Everyone on that stage was on fire.
Great stuff. Thanks. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays were frequent customers at a music store I co-owned in Cambridge, Ma. They were wonderful guys who loved to talk about music and music gear.
I have long thought that some of Hejira is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard a man and a woman do, eg the sequence with "a man and a woman sitting on a rock". Now hearing the interview segments at 0:35 and onward gives me some of the back story of how these artists came together. I'm glad I lived long enough to see this. Thanks, @vintagebassarchive
God, what telepathic understanding of music Jaco had. He never played a sour note when he was at himself, and found his place with anyone, settling exactly where he fit every time. Amazing. His stuff for Joni is among my favorite he ever did.
He made you first feel what he felt and changed my musical trajectory at 21, he enhanced my understanding of jazz, he changed my fundamental perception of sound and he graced us with greater appreciation of true musical genius when it infrequently appears in a lifetime. I feel so grateful and lucky to have lived during paco and joni's lifetimes
the perfect marriage of styles, where the players all hear an alternate universe of sound. Beautiful colors without a trace of doing stuff to show off; every thing fits but only these guys could find it. THe best I have every heard.
Saw Jaco with Weather Report, Santa Cruz c. 1975. An everyday excellent concert for Joe's unit; a mind-blowing, never-to-be-forgotten experience for this 25-yr old who'd 'enhanced' the experience w/ some local 'shrooms.
Even before I knew who Jaco was, I immediately fell in love with the album Hejira in '76, and still consider it Joni's very best, because of those completely unique sounds of Jaco Pastorius.
I remember ready the small paragraph about his terrible passing in the Philadelphia newspaper. I was in disbelief for a while because he was such a legend in Philly being that he was from the area and got very little coverage.
Wow. That says it all about Joni Mitchell's musical credibility that Pat and Jaco would be so willing to join her as a combo. This is easily one of the best videos I've ever seen on TH-cam. Like a national historic document.
Whenever I spend any time with Joni’s music and singing I’m stunned with by its breathtaking beauty and depth. Every time. Still, all these years later. That this video also celebrates Jaco is a double bonus.
I never knew his story until now and I'm 69 years old.....I was working with Henry Lewy in 1984 thinking I knew soooo much in my little music world ..damn!😂❤
Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius. Their music what we hear when two musical geniuses add up to even more than the "sum of two parts": it's beyond sublime. I was around when this was happening (at music college), and we were all in awe.
Jaco collaborating with Joni on her albums Hejira and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter blew my mind when I was a teenager. Those records still blow my mind.
One of my favorite moments in the movie "The Last Waltz" was when Joni is on-stage with The Band playing "Coyote", and Robbie Robert gives commentray that the members of The Band had trouble keeping up with Joni Mitchell, between the musical range she played at, plus her use of open tuning on the guitar. That's an incredible compliment from one of the best musicians of a band made up of great musicians!
Never cared for the Band or bobby, sounded so old-timey and hokey, they were no comparison with Joni's band! In the Last Waltz, there is a segment with Joni and bobby and Gordon and the Byrds guy, and they simply cannot keep up with her on Coyote!
Big fan of Joni's music back in the day! Never was a fan of any female singers until I heard her. Never knew till today, Dec. 2023, that was Jaco playing the bass! Thank you VBA for this visual down memory lane! Back in the day we could only hear it on records or the radio. The vinyl's cardboard jacket our only form of information to the creaters... this post was very emotionally moving for me... bless you
I was fortunate enough to see this tour in Edwardsville Illinois. Still say it was one of the best performances I have ever seen! The band was amazing.
If you’ve watched Shadows and Light, it’s a trip walking past that outdoor theatre in Santa Barbara. You look at the space and the memories come flooding back.
At the Smith Center? I was there too, 8th row center. They had some kind of silver balloon like a flying saucer that flew around and then moved down the middle aisle and, as the band kicked into Black Market, the balloon rose in front of the curtain in synchronicity with the curtain moving up to expose the band.
I'm in my 40s and never gave Joni a second thought. I'm glad I saved her until my taste was more refined. The full concert video of the one featured here is unbelievable.
Hearing Jaco for the first tine, playing on ‘Heavy Weather’ when I was 16, just blew my mind. I had to have the album and then I saw him play, with the same personnel. I have loved his playing ever since and his playing with Joni was so perfect. He was able to bring a sensitivity and feeling, that was so incredible. He was the one that changed the landscape of bass playing for ever and there will never be another like him 🙏❤️
We went to a simple little club in Tiberon Ca. where Jaco was playing. We were jazzbos, and hit all he clubs in the bay area, but never there before. We walked up, it was still light outside, and there was Jaco outside the front door, picking his nose. Really working it. I think the gig was really the keyboardist's. This was a really casual thing..no hype, no big lines..just a place where he was playing. And of course, it looked like he picked up that bass in a pawn shop after a fire. Oddly enough, many years later I befriended a fellow named Riki Chen, who said he was posted as Jaco's bodyguard, (but really to watch over him) on an east coast gig. I met Riki in the cafes in North Beach. He busked, and was occasionally nuts. He wound up in my short film noir, which is on youtube as Bum Rap Andre Hunt.
I was there! 3rd row center Santa Barbara County Bowl. I lived on Ortega St , right off Milpas couple of blocks away. Never forget it , one of the greatest shows I ever saw. I was already in love with Hejira and Joni and Pat and Jaco, so naturally I was in music Heaven .
There was no music like this then and certainly no music now.Fortunatly we can celebrate this great concert and so many more on audio and video.She is past beautiful on this day,shining brighter than the sun.
If you ask me which two songs illustrate Jaco's musicianship best I always come up with Joni's "Hejira" and In "France they kiss on mainstreet", both on her Shadows and light album. The richness, the endless stream of ideas, the melodies and rythm, the groove, the flawless playing, it's all there in abundance. He's everywhere. I'm just as floored today as when I was when I heard it for the first time. This is the kind of playing that Victor Wooten refers to so beautifully at the end of this video, I think. Jaco indeed went beyond the bass and played music that was in the air.
My compliments and thanks to Joni Mitchell for her wonderful and brilliant music throughout my life. I was at Forest Hill Queens in 1980(if memory serves correctly) for her Shadows and Light concert. She had was the greatest backup band I've ever seen with the late Jaco, Don Alias, Michael Brecker, and Lyle Mays. I believe only Joni and Pat Metheny remain alive today. (the Persuations were the backup singers. Thanks to all the musicians mentioned both alive and dead, and special thanks to Joni Mitchell for adding so much to the music, I have heard and create.
@@VintageBassArchive You may be right as I saw so many concerts back then. Also remember seeing Jaco with Weather Report many times(late seventies)(in New York at the Beacon Theatre), seeing him solo at Carnegie among other places. The last time I saw him was in 81' in Manhattan with his Word Of Mouth Big Band. R.I.P. Jaco Pastorius
I almost forgot about the Persuasions opening and coming out again later I think. Haven't watched the Shadows and Light film for a long time but I was at the concert in Santa Barbara in September 1979 where it was filmed. I had only recently gotten into Pat Metheny so was fixated on him and Lyle Mays but this guy on bass was a revelation and of course it was the Hejira album sound I loved coming out of him. How could anyone play bass like that? Very special night. Also...I saw her years earlier in Sacramento backed up by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, a well known fusion group then. She knew how to pick her musicians to elevate her music.
10:15 That's the observation tower in Valley Forge park circa 1972 (Mary was born in 1970). I used to climb it as a kid so now I can say Jaco and I climbed the same steps!
Well there is no words...simply beautiful and so far from music business...so human and very very touching...knowing Joni ' s music since 1992, Pat and Lyle...❤❤
There can/ will be arguments about musicians as to who was the best player of their instruments of all time. The one thing that can be agreed on by all, is that Jaco had no equal and I really doubt that will ever change. He simply was the best bassist of all time. No doubt in my mind.
I saw the Shadows and Light tour in Philly in the summer of 1979, and still get goosebumps watching this video. I was knocked out of my seat.
I envy you very very much
Joanie's work with Pat Methany and Jaco was the pinnacle of her career, in my opinion. Outstanding music on a very high level. Glad I was alive to hear it. No popular music before or after came close
She never sounded better or looked any sexier during this phase of her life and music.
@@PaulSchuster-yj4zb
Imagine all the male musicians who never looked sexy at all. But played well….
@@annalisa14u r the gender that is seggsualizing without limits especially nowadays, so get along with such comments
@@annalisa14I immediately have to think of Prince, who adored Joni Mitchell so much
Couldn't agree more.
Pat Metheny said it best: "I wish people would just quit trying to imitate Jaco. That'll never happen again. No one's ever gonna do anything like that again."
Bassists have learned from his style as does all good artists that will come after him.
Victor Wooten
Exactly!
There are bass players today who are just as good as Jaco. They have once again redefine and extended the possibilities of the instrument.
His approach of endless possibilities is what has inspired us. Very inventive and melodic approach. His sound is unique. Every other jazzbass player trying to emulate him sounds quite different than Jacob
Have studied Joni, Jaco and Mclaughlin my whole life, and even though I've never made a dime in the music business, I am rich beyond belief! Thank you all.
I didn’t know they were up for studying …..
@lisamoroney3036 well you transcribe their music by writing it down in manuscript and then study it by harmonic and contrapuntal analysis.
@@No_Govt why would I want to do that
One of the greatest videos ever made was Joni's "Shadows and Light" with Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker Don Alias and Lyle Mays. They performed a masterpiece.
i uploaded that with the best quality on TH-cam (and subtitles) th-cam.com/video/xrAs7-LT6VE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=I4fayIdkMt9H_nXR
Practically no singer active today could hope to assemble such an amazing and star-studded backing band for a tour. The music industry today doesn't allow it.
I was a big fan of Weather Report and had been listening to the Shadows and Light album for years but that concert video was the first time I actually saw Jaco play. Joni had the greatest musicians backing her. And it's still on youtube.
Metheny is a superb musician, but a little distortion once in a while wouldn't hurt
@@funkyalfonso There's some Weather Report videos out there and Jaco doesn't disappoint.
She's an excellent guitarist in her own right.
Joni Mitchell is technically superior ; but her innovative use of tunings puts her in a class I
call EXTRAORDINARY . I can only think of one other guitar player that occupies a similar place in the history of guitar innovations and
that is Roy Buchanan ❤
Such a tragic story, such otherworldly brilliance and beauty! Thank goodness Joni tracked him down, I can't imagine that band not existing!! My dear friend and the guitarist in my high school band was walking home from a rehearsal one day in the East Village with his jazz band and they passed a homeless looking guy sitting on the sidewalk, one of them said, "man that looks like Jaco" and the guy yelled, "yeah that's me, the notorious Pastorious!" They stopped, not convinced, but he talked my friend into handing his guitar over... and proceeded to blow their minds. My friend was very shaken by this experience, thrilled and saddened to the core. It's a crazy beautiful world.
The passive destruction of enormous promise tends to shatter the myths we tell about 'the poet - the story teller - the musician. Another chapter in the Book !
After he burst onto the stage in 1976 everybody* wanted to have him on their records...Joni was early, of course. One of the oddest things is that a few years later she had ALL of Weather Report, minus Joe Zawinul, as her backing band in the studio. WR had a contract clause at the time that no outside album could have more than one WR member on it. I have no idea how Joni got around that!
@@louise_rose she's Joni simply put
Yes Jaco was tragic...but many artistic geniuses share the trait.
It's been a long time but I don't think I'll ever stop being sad about Jaco's downfall and passing or being grateful for the music he gave us.
@@yuntakukai1002Our.
We share the same feeling RIP Jaco
Yes such amazing music and gone way too soon~
Jaco was one of a kind. We were blessed to have him share his gift with us. RIP Jaco, you brought us so much joy.
My brother knew Jaco very well, Randy, and Jaco would come over for cookouts and Thanksgiving where I remember all of us out front of my mother's house throwing football, great times. Jaco was always very friendly to me.. So sad what happened. RIP Jaco Thanks for the memories....
Joni Mitchell has always been an underrated guitarist, perhaps overshadowed by her singing. But in the old days when musicians lived and hung out in Laurel Canyon, Eric Clapton would visit and sit at her feet, marveling at her guitar technique. That band with Pastorius and Metheny were like a jazz super group that in that moment of musical history, were the platinum standard of vocal jazz.
Hejira is a MUST HAVE album. It is absolutely amazing on many levels. The planets aligned for that record.
... a picture of one blue, motel room ... Away from many of life's middleclass circumstances ... They must had been lovers, at least ... Soulmates ... Once Jaco left, Joni seemed not to be interested in giving, not like be4 ... The "Mingus" album was their mutual full circle ... God Bless Jaco ... or ... A God less. While ...Joni is a survivor , a traveller... It is never easy to be brave ...
@@sillyreallyableWhat the hell are you talking about
Every Joni Mitchell album is a must have. If you like Jaco, have you checked out Joni's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter? Jaco bumped up his tracks on the album without Joni's knowledge. Can't remember how she put it but it was something like she is singing on Jaco's songs or something like that.
To me, it's literally the best popular album ever made. It is through-composed: literally a travelogue populated by the most amazing cast of characters, poetry on the level of a Dylan Thomas, harmonies you've never heard but that work perfectly, and Jaco's astonishing bass. "Blue" is a phenomenal collection of songs, but "Hejira" is, well, it's genius.
Assuming you’ve heard Court and Spark. She did nothing but get better. Pushing boundaries. Breaking barriers.
1989 , 1990 , when i heard heavy weather from WR , my life has changed for ever ....
Joni jaco and Pat. Wonderful
there is something about his bass sound and her voice being perfect together. I have listen/watched that live show like 20 times. He is so pitch perfect and fits in perfectly.
I have the best quality of that show here, and I added subtitles ❤
@@VintageBassArchive i hit the sub button -----
@@1FeistyKitty oh nevermind, it seems that video was blocked worldwide
@@1FeistyKitty ah I removed the copyright issue. enjoy
They were magic together.
Been watching this since the early 90’s! One of the greatest concerts ever! The best is Joni smiling ear to ear the whole time! She knew they were killin!
Yes, she looks completely at home with the show and not feeling upstaged at all. Her dignified demeanour is really striking - and this was at a time when it was much more rare with women leading their own band and writing their own music than it would be thirty years later.
I was just thinking, this is clearly one of the greatest of all time. Watched a half dozen times. Jaco, glad to have seen him with Weather Report, Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, 1979 or 1980ish.
@@JSkalman Yes, it's such an all-star backing band, a phenomenal amount of talent (and genius) gathered on that stage - and they manage to work together seamlessly! I don't think a backing band like that would have been possible to get together for a live tour now, at least not without booking them a couple of years in advance - the music industry has changed so much.
Love them both. Joni and Jaco reached new heights together. Nothing has topped it for me.
There are people who are not meant for longevity because their star is too bright and it burns out like a Nova, however what they do lasts forever, Jaco was one of those people.
W.A.Mozart was another ❤
I love this. I heard the news about Jaco while in a church on Sunday morning. I couldn’t help it, I wept. If anyone has not watched the entire shadows and light concert or heard the record, I highly recommend you do both. Everyone on that stage was on fire.
It had to be a rare treat to be a jazz-based musician and be appreciated and able to perform with Joni!
Great stuff. Thanks. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays were frequent customers at a music store I co-owned in Cambridge, Ma. They were wonderful guys who loved to talk about music and music gear.
I have long thought that some of Hejira is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard a man and a woman do, eg the sequence with "a man and a woman sitting on a rock". Now hearing the interview segments at 0:35 and onward gives me some of the back story of how these artists came together. I'm glad I lived long enough to see this. Thanks, @vintagebassarchive
Special People like Jaco Pastorius come once every 100-250 years!!! SO GLAD I WAS AROUND AT THE SAME TIME TO WITNESS HIS MUSICAL GENIUS!😲😲😲
God, what telepathic understanding of music Jaco had. He never played a sour note when he was at himself, and found his place with anyone, settling exactly where he fit every time. Amazing. His stuff for Joni is among my favorite he ever did.
He made you first feel what he felt and changed my musical trajectory at 21, he enhanced my understanding of jazz, he changed my fundamental perception of sound and he graced us with greater appreciation of true musical genius when it infrequently appears in a lifetime. I feel so grateful and lucky to have lived during paco and joni's lifetimes
17:56
the perfect marriage of styles, where the players all hear an alternate universe of sound. Beautiful colors without a trace of doing stuff to show off; every thing fits but only these guys could find it. THe best I have every heard.
Coocko bass player. And would not be as good if he wasn't
Saw Jaco with Weather Report, Santa Cruz c. 1975. An everyday excellent concert for Joe's unit; a mind-blowing, never-to-be-forgotten experience for this 25-yr old who'd 'enhanced' the experience w/ some local 'shrooms.
Well done 🎉
Even before I knew who Jaco was, I immediately fell in love with the album Hejira in '76, and still consider it Joni's very best, because of those completely unique sounds of Jaco Pastorius.
Yes. Hejira, Summer Lawns, & Court & Spark are the 3 must haves.
@@granthurlburt4062 Blue!
I remember ready the small paragraph about his terrible passing in the Philadelphia newspaper. I was in disbelief for a while because he was such a legend in Philly being that he was from the area and got very little coverage.
Wow. That says it all about Joni Mitchell's musical credibility that Pat and Jaco would be so willing to join her as a combo. This is easily one of the best videos I've ever seen on TH-cam. Like a national historic document.
Whenever I spend any time with Joni’s music and singing I’m stunned with by its breathtaking beauty and depth. Every time. Still, all these years later. That this video also celebrates Jaco is a double bonus.
Some Stars just burn brighter and faster than the others.
This Band was cooking. Man what a tight groove, and what musicianship...
I never knew his story until now and I'm 69 years old.....I was working with Henry Lewy in 1984 thinking I knew soooo much in my little music world ..damn!😂❤
Mindblowing. Several shots I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for sharing this.
I had no clue until I saw this video in its entirety that Jaco played behind "Little Beaver." I used to love Little Beavers music.... and Timmy Thomas
That was a beautiful tribute to a genius and a time of incredible creativity!
shocking for its brightness, shocking for its darkness, but Jaco, always Jaco, the best ever!!!
Joni and Jaco's playing on the song Hejira is the most intimate thing I've ever heard♥️
💯👏👏👏
I think the same like you
Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius. Their music what we hear when two musical geniuses add up to even more than the "sum of two parts": it's beyond sublime. I was around when this was happening (at music college), and we were all in awe.
Wow - Jaco, Pat Metheny, and Joni!!!!!
I'd forgotten, too, about Jaco; hadn't realized how creative a player he was...
Wow, amazingly beautiful things said, sight unseen. The Mingus album, another amazing piece. Thank you. Genius begets genius. 😂 🎉
Lyle and Jaco juggling??!! so amazing. Thanks for this
Part of the Jaco documentary that came out a few years ago. I think it’s near the end
Jaco collaborating with Joni on her albums Hejira and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter blew my mind when I was a teenager. Those records still blow my mind.
One of my favorite moments in the movie "The Last Waltz" was when Joni is on-stage with The Band playing "Coyote", and Robbie Robert gives commentray that the members of The Band had trouble keeping up with Joni Mitchell, between the musical range she played at, plus her use of open tuning on the guitar. That's an incredible compliment from one of the best musicians of a band made up of great musicians!
Never cared for the Band or bobby, sounded so old-timey and hokey, they were no comparison with Joni's band! In the Last Waltz, there is a segment with Joni and bobby and Gordon and the Byrds guy, and they simply cannot keep up with her on Coyote!
Big fan of Joni's music back in the day! Never was a fan of any female singers until I heard her. Never knew till today, Dec. 2023, that was Jaco playing the bass! Thank you VBA for this visual down memory lane! Back in the day we could only hear it on records or the radio. The vinyl's cardboard jacket our only form of information to the creaters... this post was very emotionally moving for me... bless you
The opening chords to Hejira always put a lump in my throat. It's so beautiful and ethereal.
Thanks for sharing. There’s footage here I’ve never seen. I saw him live once in SF 1982. Cherished memory.
I was fortunate enough to see this tour in Edwardsville Illinois. Still say it was one of the best performances I have ever seen! The band was amazing.
Thank you forever, Jaco, wherever you are ! 😊
If you’ve watched Shadows and Light, it’s a trip walking past that outdoor theatre in Santa Barbara. You look at the space and the memories come flooding back.
Outstanding!!!!
Jaco and Pat Metheny and Lyle Mayes, and Joni....way over the moon! Outstanding!!!
Jaco and Lyle juggling... wow. The world was different back then. RIP brothers.
I know! Who knew how cool those people were; multifaceted, entertaining, and entertained.
Michael Brecker and Pat Metheney being amazed by the spectacle...what a party
Thanks Rob for making this happen! 🤘
I saw Weather Report on Halloween night in 1978 in Wash DC. Front row center. It was beyond brilliant, and Jacos' solo spot brought the house down.
At the Smith Center? I was there too, 8th row center. They had some kind of silver balloon like a flying saucer that flew around and then moved down the middle aisle and, as the band kicked into Black Market, the balloon rose in front of the curtain in synchronicity with the curtain moving up to expose the band.
I'm in my 40s and never gave Joni a second thought. I'm glad I saved her until my taste was more refined. The full concert video of the one featured here is unbelievable.
Hearing Jaco for the first tine, playing on ‘Heavy Weather’ when I was 16, just blew my mind. I had to have the album and then I saw him play, with the same personnel. I have loved his playing ever since and his playing with Joni was so perfect. He was able to bring a sensitivity and feeling, that was so incredible. He was the one that changed the landscape of bass playing for ever and there will never be another like him 🙏❤️
Thank you, Joni and her players!!!!
And Joni was so lovely in that video, so 'In charge'. It looked like the other musicians were devoted to her.
Who wouldnt be?
We went to a simple little club in Tiberon Ca. where Jaco was playing. We were jazzbos, and hit all he clubs in the bay area, but never there before. We walked up, it was still light outside, and there was Jaco outside the front door, picking his nose. Really working it. I think the gig was really the keyboardist's. This was a really casual thing..no hype, no big lines..just a place where he was playing. And of course, it looked like he picked up that bass in a pawn shop after a fire. Oddly enough, many years later I befriended a fellow named Riki Chen, who said he was posted as Jaco's bodyguard, (but really to watch over him) on an east coast gig. I met Riki in the cafes in North Beach. He busked, and was occasionally nuts. He wound up in my short film noir, which is on youtube as Bum Rap Andre Hunt.
Most pleasant. I'm officially a Joni Mitchell Fan. 😂🎉❤
Thank you Joni this left me with shivers of gratitude for this legendary soul 🧡❤️💛🧡🩷
Yeah..her work expanded once Jaco came into the picture. Fantastic chemistry.
Music where you can hear everything is ridiculously great
Joni's phrasing is always such a thrilling ride and impossible to re-create, maybe even for her!
A magical man. Run over by his magic.
What a gem of a vid. Fanx for posting this. ❤
Wow, great music.
Love when Pat throws in American Garage at the end of his solo
Pat Metheny with Jaco accompanying Joni, rock n rolling ! you can't beat that !
This was such a magic pairing
I saw Jaco with Weather Report. He was a remarkable player in what was a remarkable band. His work with Joni is absolutely brilliant. Lucky us.
I was there! 3rd row center Santa Barbara County Bowl. I lived on Ortega St , right off Milpas couple of blocks away. Never forget it , one of the greatest shows I ever saw. I was already in love with Hejira and Joni and Pat and Jaco, so naturally I was in music Heaven .
There's something about this that makes me want to cry. I like to hear Joni speak well of Jaco.
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There was no music like this then and certainly no music now.Fortunatly we can celebrate this great concert and so many more on audio and video.She is past beautiful on this day,shining brighter than the sun.
With this amazing post, I begin to follow yr'channel: they -both- Jaco & Joni, are my top 10 musician of my life soundtrack: CONGRATS! (for ever)!!!!
OH JACO!! Absolutely.
Three unique exemplary musicians on the same stage!
Musicians simply on another level than the rest of us. That’s a special special place to be
Took a trip to Oakland park(fla)
to see his mural. Off of a busy street. They could have placed it in a bigger park.
Place a mural?
@fidge54 Yes. A Mural. He used to live in Broward County Florida so they had an artist paint a side wall of him in a small park.
Love the Joni Mitchell "Mingus" album.
Yeah you reminded me of Dry cleaner from Demoine so funki
An unnecessary tragedy. The world lost an amazing talent when Jaco left us.
I know and he was only 31.
Unfortunately didn't make it out the other side. Wouldn't have been who he was otherwise though.. Just the cards that were dealt
I read that security guard Luc Havan was released for good behavior...🤔
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He truly played the music that was in his soul. It was an honor to meet Jaco Pastorius in 1985. ❤
Absolutely, lovely.
If you ask me which two songs illustrate Jaco's musicianship best I always come up with Joni's "Hejira" and In "France they kiss on mainstreet", both on her Shadows and light album. The richness, the endless stream of ideas, the melodies and rythm, the groove, the flawless playing, it's all there in abundance. He's everywhere. I'm just as floored today as when I was when I heard it for the first time. This is the kind of playing that Victor Wooten refers to so beautifully at the end of this video, I think. Jaco indeed went beyond the bass and played music that was in the air.
It seems so unfair that Jaco is no longer around. It's criminal that he didn't flourish further. We all lost when he was murdered.
Great reaction from a beautiful woman.....yet so a Illy. Love it ❤ David Thomas/Enid, Oklahoma
Tremendous vid, and tribute
Joni sharing the spotlight with these once in a lifetime musicians…. She sang he ass off consequently.
Wonderful seeing young Pat and Lyle (the "Shadow and Light" clips).
My compliments and thanks to Joni Mitchell for her wonderful and brilliant music throughout my life.
I was at Forest Hill Queens in 1980(if memory serves correctly) for her Shadows and Light concert. She had was the greatest backup band I've ever seen with the late Jaco, Don Alias, Michael Brecker, and Lyle Mays. I believe only Joni and Pat Metheny remain alive today. (the Persuations were the backup singers.
Thanks to all the musicians mentioned both alive and dead,
and special thanks to Joni Mitchell for adding so much to the music, I have heard and create.
that would have been in 1979, 22 years before i was born (i am 22)
@@VintageBassArchive You may be right as I saw so many concerts back then.
Also remember seeing Jaco with Weather Report many times(late seventies)(in New York at the Beacon Theatre),
seeing him solo at Carnegie among other places.
The last time I saw him was in 81' in Manhattan
with his Word Of Mouth Big Band. R.I.P. Jaco Pastorius
I almost forgot about the Persuasions opening and coming out again later I think. Haven't watched the Shadows and Light film for a long time but I was at the concert in Santa Barbara in September 1979 where it was filmed. I had only recently gotten into Pat Metheny so was fixated on him and Lyle Mays but this guy on bass was a revelation and of course it was the Hejira album sound I loved coming out of him. How could anyone play bass like that? Very special night. Also...I saw her years earlier in Sacramento backed up by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, a well known fusion group then. She knew how to pick her musicians to elevate her music.
Two gifts from God. Jaco & Jonie
10:15 That's the observation tower in Valley Forge park circa 1972 (Mary was born in 1970). I used to climb it as a kid so now I can say Jaco and I climbed the same steps!
so cool
Ya he was from Norristown that is a hop skip from Valley forge park
Giant Steps?😊
Herjiira has the most amazing bass tracks you will ever hear. Magnificent album.
Well there is no words...simply beautiful and so far from music business...so human and very very touching...knowing Joni ' s music since 1992, Pat and Lyle...❤❤
Ya left me wanting more dam it!
Rest in peace Jaco.✌🏻🎸
06:36 Pat Metheny plays the riff to Phase Dance, a plug to his own music. Then smiles a "did you get it?" type smile to the band.
So glad Ms. Mitchell Had something nice to say about Jaco, In spite of...
Very relaxed and comfortable, easy to think by.
Wow, can't get the image of Lyle Mays juggling with Jaco as Pat Metheny watches! 11:00 Hard to believe on Pat is left.
Jaco G.O.A.T ❤
There can/ will be arguments about musicians as to who was the best player of their instruments of all time.
The one thing that can be agreed on by all, is that Jaco had no equal and I really doubt that will ever change. He simply was the best bassist of all time.
No doubt in my mind.
I wish this documentary lasted a lot longer
the full Jaco documentary is on TH-cam somewhere. with Spanish subtitles or something..
also @realcut made a second documentary