Jaco was the epitome of fretless bass guitarists. Always exciting, wildly quick and so, so beautiful! His harmonics were outta sight. One of a kind, gone way, way too soon. So happy to have recordings of him...thank you, Rick, for posting this beauty!
JACO....what can you say? I am forever left speechless most of the time I listen to him play. He now has 5,000,000 copycats, but nobody sounds even remotely like him in any way. Some of them get the notes but none of the soul and feeling and the magic of the sound he had. And they never will because they are not the man who created the sound and came up with the development of the astounding techniques of tone, muting, phrasing and other nuances about electric bass playing. Hearing him in 1978 in a small theater in my home town of Passaic, NJ was one of the highlights of my life as far as music is concerned. Thank you so much, Rick for sharing this recording with all of us, who loved his playing and his innovations.
@@jonpaulagustsson9424 thank you for taking the time to read what I wrote. I may never see or hear another musical innovator like that in this lifetime. Seeing him up close for a 1978 Weather Report concert remains one of the most impactful musical moments of my life, for sure!!!
Thanks for posting this.....I lose it every time I hear this guy. He set the bar so high there is simply no reason to attempt to take it any higher. Best ever....love him.
Lol, “a small crowd of hundred”? It is huge by today’s standards. We don’t see these numbers in NY anymore, unfortunately.... Jaco is AMAZING as always 🤟❤️
I saw him w/ WR in 81? Never heard a band fuckup a song so bad then recover it out of nowhere. Night passage. That in itself was impressive. Jaco's solo, he literally turned into a cartoon watching him it was so unreal. Learned later he was on the edge about that time.
So Jaco had Word of Mouth kind of starting back as early as in April 81. I know he toured a little with Weather Report that year and formed WOM in Dec. 81. Great stuff though, Love Word of Mouth!! I only wish he would have cut a "Domingo" and "Ballon Song" on the studio album. Man, can you imagine Domingo on the Night Passage album?
I miss Jaco so much. I saw him at here in Dallas Tango's (long gone now) in the mid 80's and I was 22 yrs old at the time. I was so fucking bummed when I heard he was killed. I remember the day, my friend called me and told me to turn to a certain page of the Dallas Times Herald. I went into a dark depression and stopped playing bass for a few months. He was a bass God to me because he had such a crazy break out of jail style. It's funny but that night I saw him I played against his drummer on an arcade game during a band break. The game was Pole Position and it was a close game, though I beat him. We both had a good laugh. His drummer was a short black dude-- I'm not tall at 5'10-- but fucking awesome when he was beating those skins.
This, is why I say that Jaco was one of the best of his, or any time on this instrument! His inventiveness, his purposefully saying it in his own voice, regardless of "traditional" expectations, and the demand of his instrument to be heard as he played, is almost unchallenged! There are many almost inhumanly skilled players, but Jaco, was like hearing a new language, for the first time, and never quite mastering the grammar of its written rules!
A rock star plays 3 notes for a million people............a jazz musician plays a million notes for 3 people.............I can't believe there was only a handful of people in the club that night
I look at it this way, there were you and the small audience experiencing the magic. However, I believe a million angels also heard him. And were in awe. Just like you. And now lucky me.
i really wish he had made a move to follow up word of mouth. It may have altered history and Jaco may even still be with us cause he wouldve been busy working and touring for that new album, there were other albums but i mean another solo effort his self titled, then word, then a pause and around 86 another solo effort or even gotten back together with pat metheny, peter erskine, michael stern in the studio anything... would love to see felix cut a solo album or with antonio forcione
This is really cool. Is he playing a 4 string? Sounds like that low note was really down there to B or somethin'. Had 5 & 6 string basses been made in '81? Amazing stuff and thanks so much for sharing.
He was a cool guy @ a wonderful Father until he lost his mind. As bad as it was in the end you could still put a bass in his hand & there would be magic❤️
Thankyou for posting this,it’s beautiful…..This posts reminds of 2 things…#1 Jaco is quite simply The G.O.A.T. ..and #2 is there are 10 douchebags in this world that didn’t like this…lol...
isnt it awesome there were no cell phones to accidently ring at the worst time while getting such precise recordings! You should send this through some EQ and totally crispify the sound it would make it that much more amazing
“Talent is hitting a target nobody else can hit. Genius is hitting a target nobody else can see.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Jaco was the epitome of fretless bass guitarists. Always exciting, wildly quick and so, so beautiful! His harmonics were outta sight. One of a kind, gone way, way too soon. So happy to have recordings of him...thank you, Rick, for posting this beauty!
Jaco is the best Bass player of all time. Signed; Bass Player of 41 yrs.
I was at this club where he played drums , piano then he played purple haze on the bass !
goose pimples time again...thanks for this...the longer I live the more his music touches me...
JACO....what can you say? I am forever left speechless most of the time I listen to him play. He now has 5,000,000 copycats, but nobody sounds even remotely like him in any way. Some of them get the notes but none of the soul and feeling and the magic of the sound he had. And they never will because they are not the man who created the sound and came up with the development of the astounding techniques of tone, muting, phrasing and other nuances about electric bass playing. Hearing him in 1978 in a small theater in my home town of Passaic, NJ was one of the highlights of my life as far as music is concerned.
Thank you so much, Rick for sharing this recording with all of us, who loved his playing and his innovations.
madbebopper Thank you for your lovely words
Giustissimo amico,,nessuno mai potrà avere l 'anima di Jaco, la sua poesia, la sua rabbia,,,la sua vita❤,,espressi in musica,,pura magia.
@@jonpaulagustsson9424 thank you for taking the time to read what I wrote. I may never see or hear another musical innovator like that in this lifetime. Seeing him up close for a 1978 Weather Report concert remains one of the most impactful musical moments of my life, for sure!!!
It will NEVER be another Jaco and JIMMY HENDRIX as well 🙈 🙊 🙉
Hey man have u ever heard victor baileys tribute to him??? It will make u cry
some of the most gorgeous bass creativity and harmonics ever!!
Thanks for posting this.....I lose it every time I hear this guy. He set the bar so high there is simply no reason to attempt to take it any higher. Best ever....love him.
exACTly
Love Jaco. This is why the Beatles will live forever, solid solid compositions that sound good in every situation. El la 'Blackbird'.
Lol, “a small crowd of hundred”? It is huge by today’s standards. We don’t see these numbers in NY anymore, unfortunately....
Jaco is AMAZING as always 🤟❤️
Thank you for posting this. The world needs all the Jaco it can get. Beautiful.
He touches on lot of themes of his other music. He will always be an icon and a pioneer on the bass.
The first 3 and a half minute... in heaven of music. The Master of Harmonics unfolded - what a magnificent post, thank you, ricksuchow.
Wow! You captured a piece of history and a rare genius. Thank you for recording this and posting it
That was the one and only Bass Of Doom.
Wow truly great beyond catagory this improvisation.
Thank you so much! I am fixated with Jaco..such a wonderful and talented human being!
Wow! Thank You for sharing.Such a gifted player. (still ahead of His time.)
Thanks, Rick for sharing these fantastic rarities
This is totally insane!!!! the genius of Jaco pastorius at its full !! Ultra-Bad electric bass solo!! yeahhhh..Thanks for posting ricksushow!!!
Jaco Forever! Thx for this post!
Thanks very much for posting that!
I saw him w/ WR in 81? Never heard a band fuckup a song so bad then recover it out of nowhere. Night passage. That in itself was impressive. Jaco's solo, he literally turned into a cartoon watching him it was so unreal. Learned later he was on the edge about that time.
Gorgeous. We're so lucky to have access to a genius like this at the touch of a button! Thank you, Jaco, and thank you, Rick.
unreal and otherworldly
Thank you for your sharing this... amazing.
Jaco lives on and on and on. Thanks for this great posting.
Such a touch, didn't Jaco say "the sound is in my hands"?...The head heart and everything else...
Pure Poetry... I'm magnetic electrified by Jaco P listning to this great post. Thanks.
So Jaco had Word of Mouth kind of starting back as early as in April 81. I know he toured a little with Weather Report that year and formed WOM in Dec. 81. Great stuff though, Love Word of Mouth!! I only wish he would have cut a "Domingo" and "Ballon Song" on the studio album. Man, can you imagine Domingo on the Night Passage album?
Good comment
Simply wow. Thank you for posting this gem.
Thank you for posting this. Really good quality.
You are so lucky! Thank you for posting this gem!
Straight to my favorites, thanks for the upload.
I miss Jaco so much. I saw him at here in Dallas Tango's (long gone now) in the mid 80's and I was 22 yrs old at the time. I was so fucking bummed when I heard he was killed. I remember the day, my friend called me and told me to turn to a certain page of the Dallas Times Herald. I went into a dark depression and stopped playing bass for a few months. He was a bass God to me because he had such a crazy break out of jail style. It's funny but that night I saw him I played against his drummer on an arcade game during a band break. The game was Pole Position and it was a close game, though I beat him. We both had a good laugh. His drummer was a short black dude-- I'm not tall at 5'10-- but fucking awesome when he was beating those skins.
Sounds like you met Paco Serry on drums. He's from the Ivory coat (Africa) a badass. Either that or Kenwood Denard.
thank you very much for this hystorical recording keep safety this forever.
listening to it, the first chord with the harmonics at 0:21 is so beautifully dark and rich. he really was something special
Wow! man! sounds like you saw a great show!
Thank you Rick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic!
Wow amazing from the God of bass!
I would like to hear him just than a million other bands..
substitute 'just for 'more' and I'd have to agree with you.
Grazie per questo!
Jesus H Christ. Jaco, you were never less than incredible.
Thanks for posting this... shades of his version of Blackbird... my personal favourite...
Thank you....
He could play such beautiful stuff, I often wonder what kind of music he’d have written in later eras.
i wonder too ... i think ab it many times
And his arrangements... He was brilliant.
The one and only Jaco! R.I.P
A great recording of the man
This, is why I say that Jaco was one of the best of his, or any time on this instrument!
His inventiveness, his purposefully saying it in his own voice, regardless of "traditional" expectations, and the demand of his instrument to be heard as he played, is almost unchallenged!
There are many almost inhumanly skilled players, but Jaco, was like hearing a new language, for the first time, and never quite mastering the grammar of its written rules!
Great document, well done! Thank You very much indeed.
Very good
Seventh Ave. South? The Brecker Bros. Club? GOD Bless Jaco !
Thank You for sharing Rick.
Sweet. Thank you.
THANK YOU!!!
Jaco Pastorius, the eternal musical genius.
Thank you
Priceless!!!Thanks for shareit!!!
A rock star plays 3 notes for a million people............a jazz musician plays a million notes for 3 people.............I can't believe there was only a handful of people in the club that night
Because rockstar is like a shit millions flies over there
A Pop star plays 1 note for 100000000 people.
...they are the true shit hahahaha
I look at it this way, there were you and the small audience experiencing the magic. However, I believe a million angels also heard him. And were in awe. Just like you. And now lucky me.
it doesn't matter : )
I envy those three people wow what a night
wow.
goddamn that is like pure LSD, man
amazing...
thanks for the share
i really wish he had made a move to follow up word of mouth. It may have altered history and Jaco may even still be with us cause he wouldve been busy working and touring for that new album, there were other albums but i mean another solo effort his self titled, then word, then a pause and around 86 another solo effort or even gotten back together with pat metheny, peter erskine, michael stern in the studio anything... would love to see felix cut a solo album or with antonio forcione
holiday for pans
Magic!
Blackbird ! .... Love it ......
Pretty Jaco!
thank´s for share ......
love it!!
Jacos the man ,!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used some fairly cheap Walkman-like cassette recorder... mono.
well done Rick ;-)
Come back and listen friend!
That moment in time created so much beauty for us all to enjoy. Thanks Rick.
if truth were music, this would be it. thanks mate
JACO G.O.A.T.
cool
My 33rd birthday!
He was a creative genius
This is really cool. Is he playing a 4 string? Sounds like that low note was really down there to B or somethin'. Had 5 & 6 string basses been made in '81? Amazing stuff and thanks so much for sharing.
NIIIIIICE
He was a cool guy @ a wonderful
Father until he lost his mind. As bad as it was in the end you could still put a bass in his hand & there would be magic❤️
I almost thought it was RICK JAMES in this photo.
Thankyou for posting this,it’s beautiful…..This posts reminds of 2 things…#1 Jaco is quite simply The G.O.A.T. ..and #2 is there are 10 douchebags in this world that didn’t like this…lol...
Any chance you recorded any more of the gig??
@OL8Twho 5 strings were around, but jaco only played 4 string
お洒落✨👗👠😃😎
@BassAce47 Yea :)
@BassAce47 Wow you're right
Oh yeah a like and a sub for this .2 thumbs down the duran duran fans are out in force .
at 1:59-2:02 i wanna learn that!!!
😃💙🌸🌱
Any chance to hear more of the recording from this date? Thx!
This would be a nice song to listen to during a meteor shower.
what type of medium did you use to record this? Casette tape recorder? I taped him there with my highly advanced rico stereo casette recorder. lol
We know where David lee Roth got his look from
isnt it awesome there were no cell phones to accidently ring at the worst time while getting such precise recordings! You should send this through some EQ and totally crispify the sound it would make it that much more amazing
while I read your comment, I hear a phone ringing at 6:11 . I had to replay it 4 times to be sure.
1:15-1:20
to return by cassette...¡¡
Jaco's daughter Mary has a profile here.
I love how jaco grooves and admire his extreme endurance, but never liked his melodic fiddles with harmonics.
how to sound like jaco:
first
be jaco
Well ...ramon709 it is time for you to open up your ears and stop fiddling them ;)