The first song is Amelia. Jaco wrote it after Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders came to our high school in Amelia, Ohio October 1972. My good buddy, Rusty Hunt, guitar player for the Amelia High School Jazz Ensemble, me, Jeff Conley, 1st sax for Amelia Jazz Ensemble sat with Jaco for dinner. Our Moms cooked chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans for the band who came in from the road. They LOVED it! Jaco,and us two High School students talked about Jimi Hendrix for an hour! Later that night Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders gave a concert for the general public in our gym. During Jaco's solo he cranked up the distortion on his Acoustic 360 Power Plus bass amp and performed The Star Spangled Banner like Hendrix. Dive bombs, feedback, screaming jets...the whole deal!!
This is a great anecdote, but the first song was actually "Ming of Mings". Amelia was the second song, Wayne Cochran even introduces "Amelia" by saying that.
That's insane! Having Jaco over to your house... Any other interesting details or quotes you remember from the conversation you didn't mention in the 1st post?
Jesus, he was just a kid and his entire mature sound is already there. I'm sure he was already the best the first time he picked up that 1962 Fender. Kinda like Louis Armstrong and the trumpet. They were both marks, born to do it.
The "Riders" used to play in my old neighborhood rather frequently in West Palm Beach back in the early '70's at a joint called JB's. The building is still there. Wayne's band was a hotbed for young talent. Randy Emerick was in the band, Charlie Brent, T Don Capron on lead trumpet, my buddies Tony DeCaprio & Skip Weisser passed through before joining CHASE. Magical time for music. Jaco was healthy then.
It’s a bit exceptional isn’t it! ‘Go on son, tear it up!’ Wonder fool music, only thing I can compare it to is maybe the early Jimi Hendrix stuff with the Experience. You just want them to keep jamming.
He’s not playing the root notes but it’s all in the pocket. Except for the solo, because he’s not played the root notes he can play what he wants now. He even plays the solo in the pocket but with bonkers notes. Imagine playing with this kid, he’s crazy!
Yeh, Jaco is fully formed here- firing on all cylinders. A great unknown find and I was always curious how this band and Jaco sounded with it. Very good all around. Must have been mind blowing live, so much groove in a smallish club venue. I would just like to say that I feel strongly that Jaco wanted to transcend the jazz bass thing and become a serious composer. His second album "Word of Mouth" clearly demonstrates this IMO. I think he had promise but the music business had no desire to cultivate this. He might have been a genius on a MUCH larger scale in music history. But civilization was already heading into collapse that is all too apparent in our now officially dystopian world. Jaco always said he'd be dead by age 36 but I'm not so sure that was written in stone. I believe the music business killed him when his broader ambitions were crushed compounded by a sense of impending societal collapse. I think the mentally ill/egomaniac/ drug abuser thing is way overblown, simplistic, inaccurate and downright WRONG.
This is why I loved to see Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders, there was always two shows, first the C.C. Riders instrumental warmups (worth the price of admission) and then Wayne Cochran would come on and tear the joint up.
This is bonkers. I have practically his whole discography, and just stumbled onto this ... it's one of my favorite Jaco tracks, never mind the crappy bootleg. Those note choices, the time feel, the harmonic sensibility ... it's like he's already in top form when he's 20, touring on a bus, wearing an oversized white tuxedo.
I second that emotion!!! It’s not just about chops, it’s about soul and time, and Jaco was the master, man it was impossible for him NOT to groove!!! And you can't help thinking that the great Charlie Brent had a huge influence on Jaco's future arranging skills, just check out Come On, Come Over from Jaco's eponymous album.
his harmonic knowledge is absolutely mindblowing....he knew every beat where he was scale/key wise and how to bridge or walk to the next imminent chord like any jazz bass player but his harmony was different, hes stressing maj 3rds and maj7s in minor keys/tension....f'n guy was the greatest, let alone his bass technique his horn arranging and harmonic abilities were as high as anyone
I think that Rocco and Jaco are two masters but with a completly different approach.... Rocco Prestia's strong staccato comes from left hand muting,a lot of ghost, silent in betwen and use of arpeggios in a simple way : ). Rocco is a master of the "one note " groove style. Rocco fits with the drum. He is the perfect combination of a drum & bass section. Jaco plays more like a solist, like a second drum+horn section, using reverse and complete chords arpeggios, chromatism, be pop licks, alterning downbeat lowbeat on notes and rhythm. He is soloing his bassline but he still keeps the groove more like James Jamerson does. They both make the bass sing. Jaco doesn't have the groovy fat sound of many funk bass player of this period but a particular medium sound that put him in another range of audition. (Marcus Miller with Miles put his "brillant bass sound" also innovative) More over at this time many good funk bassists were playing 16th notes grooves so it is quite difficult to know who influenced who.... most of them are unknown. (this is just an opinion & thanks for this sharing!)
Great gem! Maybe this song (along with many others) have inspired (or served as a blue print) for the groove and bassline to The Chicken, he would later immortalize in his solo years. Who knows? Awesome track! Thanks for the upload!
. See if you can tell what they got from that. Also, Jaco was already playing the "rocco" style as you say in the laste 60's & early 70's. It is documented (books , articles. etc) that the things he became famous for was developed will he was with Wayne Cochran. I know these things because I was there. : )
Simply incredible. There are so many bands and artists I would've loved hearing Jaco play with just to hear how much better he could've made those bands. How about Jaco playing with Stevie Ray Vaughn? Would've made me cry.
yes "Jocko" it wasn't until years later did he change the spelling of his name to Jaco. When I played with him in wayne Cochrans' band he spelled it, "Jocko"
Man I love Chuck Rainey. Can still hear him playing behind Marlena Shaw on Loving you was like a Party. Chuck and the late James Jamerson (especially on Stevie stuff) are two of my all time favorites.
Jaco never played "random" notes. Every note was played with a purpose and a meaning. And this was all his real early stuff when he was was around 20 years old. Long before his claim to fame with Weather Report.
What's amazing about Jaco's style is NOT what he plays... It's what he doesn't play. They're ghost notes... syncopations... Everyone here's them, but truly, they don't REALLY exist... True story. they're subconscious rhythms in the brain. I don't know if he knew he was playing like that, or if it's just some god given talent that's who he is...
Absolutely, Mr. Lis. And when he became famous and there were all those Jaco imitators, he would lament that the would be Jacos didn't understand that his playing was first and foremost about the groove. That's why he was so great.
Shit, what a great show to see...Jaco and Wayne on stage together, so fun. I hope there's video hidden away somewhere. Jaco has killer grove - someone compared his playing to Oscar Peterson, spot on.
"Jocko" is the way he spelled it for years. I guess you knew that. A French houseguest (I think it was Michel Colombier) jotted him a note using the French spelling and Jaco liked/kept it!
@milesdavidsmith no harm my friend. I appreciate your enthusiasm. my only attemp was to keep info & perceptions clear. i love all music as well......take care : )
Jaco was the best and ever will be BUT as big as his ego was, Jaco himself even said he ripped it all. No one "invents" musicality. Anything that has been played has its roots in the past.
why people are often argue about the origins of the sound, the quality of the recording, the personnality of musicians, the false notes etc?? we don't care, we just listen!if it's good, we keep on.If it ain't, next!!
Who the F. is Lenon they Flow our minds (not mind) cray baby F.. Him N all Beatles. Music and the world lost Him. No One words about this. Human being.
@rickdenson it is obvious that jaco would have become the great that he was. But all of us being at a very developmental period at that time we layed down the groundwork for him. Charlie's brilliant writing & guitar playing & the N.O's grease I brought to the table gave him the vision he was looking for to move forward into music history.
It’s thee Jaco riff, used it a lot in weather report and on his debut, also on Suite: Golden Dawn off Al Di Meola’s Land of the Midnight Sun. Hell of a track
g'day blokes and blokettes! i just put up another track from this collection in my channel! it's called "between races" and features a young pastorius gigging with the peter graves orchestra in 1974. i don't think it has ever been put up on youtube before! pastorius plays some great walking lines and a monster bass intro!
@milesdavidsmith ha ha ha.....I'm not gonna debate you on this....I love Rocco.....but the time line is parallel, not before or after. When TOP was still a, "local band" they opened up for Wayne Cochran at Keystone Berkley. The bass player before Jaco with Wayne was a huge influence on Jaco. The "old timey" record Cochran recorded on Epic was recorded in 1970. Ck out on youtube, "somebody been cuutin in on my groove" by wayne Cochran. We had just recorded that when TOP opened for us.
@drumncook Oh, I'm sure you know, man. It's just that everyone else seems to know otherwise... "The influence of Prestia over the great bassist, that Jaco recognized openly, is clear on classic Tower of Power tracks as the 1973 hit 'What is Hip'. " "His style of 16th note fingerstyle funk has influenced countless bass players, including Jaco Pastorius. " "...then playing in and around them with contrasting 16th-note fretless runs that recall Jaco Pastorius’s Rocco Prestia influence."
He wasn't as influenced by Rocco as he was definitely influenced by Jerry Jemmott. In fact, although Rocco has his own beautiful style, he himself was influenced by Chuck Rainey and Jerry Jemmott.
There were/are indeed "others", But at the time,Jaco was an innovator on electric bass, Those things hadn't been done in his way,people had never heard anything like that! Even today,some people suggest Wooten and there are also newer bassplayers like Bona,Fereud,Nitti,Garrison,Gwisdala,Tony Grey etc etc. These people are certainly amazing,but you will rarely hear them Groove,and certainly not like Jaco, And they KNOW this and are "ok" with it,as everyone Knows Jaco rules!
@Musicenthusiasm I was merely commenting on their similarities. It is possible that at this point, Jaco was not influenced by Prestia's bass playing. The horn section and dodgy recording reminded me of TOP's awesome 1970 East Bay Grease. However, I believe Jaco was definitely influenced by Prestia at some point in his career. I don't appreciate being nit-picked and harassed for an innocent comment. It makes me angry and ruins my day.
@milesdavidsmith what i'm saying, even though they have that in comon, niether one influenced the other.....they came to that part of their style on their own....trust me I know who jaco listened to... : )
He was the best in his style. Nobody is the best. There are many cats who were and are still great, such as Anthony Jackson, Chuck Rainey, Marcus Miller and many others. And we're not even talking about the upright bass, which Jaco was not known for playing. As far as styles other than fusion and funk, in the fall of '75 I heard Jaco, along with Pat Metheny and Bob Moses, "try" to swing. In the words of Ray Brown, he couldn't swing if he was hanging from a rope. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
The first song is Amelia. Jaco wrote it after Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders came to our high school in Amelia, Ohio October 1972. My good buddy, Rusty Hunt, guitar player for the Amelia High School Jazz Ensemble, me, Jeff Conley, 1st sax for Amelia Jazz Ensemble sat with Jaco for dinner. Our Moms cooked chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans for the band who came in from the road. They LOVED it! Jaco,and us two High School students talked about Jimi Hendrix for an hour! Later that night Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders gave a concert for the general public in our gym. During Jaco's solo he cranked up the distortion on his Acoustic 360 Power Plus bass amp and performed The Star Spangled Banner like Hendrix. Dive bombs, feedback, screaming jets...the whole deal!!
This is a great anecdote, but the first song was actually "Ming of Mings". Amelia was the second song, Wayne Cochran even introduces "Amelia" by saying that.
That's insane! Having Jaco over to your house... Any other interesting details or quotes you remember from the conversation you didn't mention in the 1st post?
Jesus, he was just a kid and his entire mature sound is already there. I'm sure he was already the best the first time he picked up that 1962 Fender. Kinda like Louis Armstrong and the trumpet. They were both marks, born to do it.
The "Riders" used to play in my old neighborhood rather frequently in West Palm Beach back in the early '70's at a joint called JB's. The building is still there. Wayne's band was a hotbed for young talent. Randy Emerick was in the band, Charlie Brent, T Don Capron on lead trumpet, my buddies Tony DeCaprio & Skip Weisser passed through before joining CHASE. Magical time for music. Jaco was healthy then.
Jaco plays every note like it was his last. Every note. I can't get over it.
That is the definition of punk that Jaco adhered.
That's exactly what it sounds like to me too. It's moore than difficult to grasp....
Like the flute work , think it is Lateef inspired !
It’s a bit exceptional isn’t it! ‘Go on son, tear it up!’
Wonder fool music, only thing I can compare it to is maybe the early Jimi Hendrix stuff with the Experience. You just want them to keep jamming.
He’s not playing the root notes but it’s all in the pocket. Except for the solo, because he’s not played the root notes he can play what he wants now. He even plays the solo in the pocket but with bonkers notes. Imagine playing with this kid, he’s crazy!
Yeh, Jaco is fully formed here- firing on all cylinders. A great unknown find and I was always curious how this band and Jaco sounded with it. Very good all around. Must have been mind blowing live, so much groove in a smallish club venue. I would just like to say that I feel strongly that Jaco wanted to transcend the jazz bass thing and become a serious composer. His second album "Word of Mouth" clearly demonstrates this IMO. I think he had promise but the music business had no desire to cultivate this.
He might have been a genius on a MUCH larger scale in music history. But civilization was already heading into collapse that is all too apparent in our now officially dystopian world. Jaco always said he'd be dead by age 36 but I'm not so sure that was written in stone. I believe the music business killed him when his broader ambitions were crushed compounded by a sense of impending societal collapse. I think the mentally ill/egomaniac/ drug abuser thing is way overblown, simplistic, inaccurate and downright WRONG.
He definitely had composer chops. John and Mary is a great example of that. We missed out on so much more he could have done!
he was killed a few years before effective medications for bipolar disorder were discovered
Amazing stuff. Mind-blowing. I’ve played this at parties and they all go ‘play it again!’
That groove!!!! Man, I always wondered what Jaco and Jeff Porcaro would have come up with if they played together. This track is so freaking badass!
This is why I loved to see Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders, there was always two shows, first the C.C. Riders instrumental warmups (worth the price of admission) and then Wayne Cochran would come on and tear the joint up.
WOW !!
I hear this all the time and just realized its a punk rock flute.
Stellar!!!
This is bonkers. I have practically his whole discography, and just stumbled onto this ... it's one of my favorite Jaco tracks, never mind the crappy bootleg. Those note choices, the time feel, the harmonic sensibility ... it's like he's already in top form when he's 20, touring on a bus, wearing an oversized white tuxedo.
Jaco... that part from 2:01 to 2:10....... the note at 2:06... just awesome.
I second that emotion!!! It’s not just about chops, it’s about soul and time, and Jaco was the master, man it was impossible for him NOT to groove!!! And you can't help thinking that the great Charlie Brent had a huge influence on Jaco's future arranging skills, just check out Come On, Come Over from Jaco's eponymous album.
man jaco laid some wild grooves, anyone who says he just plays fast and random notes needs to listen to some of his sideman stuff like this
his harmonic knowledge is absolutely mindblowing....he knew every beat where he was scale/key wise and how to bridge or walk to the next imminent chord like any jazz bass player but his harmony was different, hes stressing maj 3rds and maj7s in minor keys/tension....f'n guy was the greatest, let alone his bass technique his horn arranging and harmonic abilities were as high as anyone
That's why he's the greatest.
Súper bass young jaco , brutal solo sound , & nice also acid-FLUTE solo ✌️😍
This truly is an ‘early genius’ recording. I play this to anyone who’ll listen and they mostly say ‘fucking hell!’
I heard a lot of The Chicken chops in here 😂
This is the ultimate!
New Orleans own Allyn Robinson on drums!
No one does the drop like Jaco Pastorius. He invented the drop.
Pardon my ignorance. What is the drop?
You can pick the year, the time, the place, or the players, but, Wayne & The CC Riders were always the BEST horn band to ever grace a stage.
I think that Rocco and Jaco are two masters but with a completly different approach....
Rocco Prestia's strong staccato comes from left hand muting,a lot of ghost, silent in betwen and use of arpeggios in a simple way : ). Rocco is a master of the "one note " groove style.
Rocco fits with the drum. He is the perfect combination of a drum & bass section.
Jaco plays more like a solist, like a second drum+horn section, using reverse and complete chords arpeggios, chromatism, be pop licks, alterning downbeat lowbeat on notes and rhythm. He is soloing his bassline but he still keeps the groove more like James Jamerson does. They both make the bass sing. Jaco doesn't have the groovy fat sound of many funk bass player of this period but a particular medium sound that put him in another range of audition.
(Marcus Miller with Miles put his "brillant bass sound" also innovative)
More over at this time many good funk bassists were playing 16th notes grooves so it is quite difficult to know who influenced who.... most of them are unknown.
(this is just an opinion & thanks for this sharing!)
I couldn’t of said it better I was blessed to spend some time with Jaco what a experience I’ll never forget!
Great gem! Maybe this song (along with many others) have inspired (or served as a blue print) for the groove and bassline to The Chicken, he would later immortalize in his solo years. Who knows? Awesome track! Thanks for the upload!
When he does the drop he knows when they go back and pickup they’ve got to pick it up and drag it now! OMG he’s so clever.
this track is killing
Jaco is better then the best ..-He is Jaco
. See if you can tell what they got from that. Also, Jaco was already playing the "rocco" style as you say in the laste 60's & early 70's. It is documented (books , articles. etc) that the things he became famous for was developed will he was with Wayne Cochran. I know these things because I was there. : )
Charlie Brent man ! Holy shit !
Simply incredible. There are so many bands and artists I would've loved hearing Jaco play with just to hear how much better he could've made those bands. How about Jaco playing with Stevie Ray Vaughn? Would've made me cry.
Jeff Porcaro on drums..
A mountain of cocaine lol
Jaco getting in some clever like melodies in between holding the groove .
yes "Jocko" it wasn't until years later did he change the spelling of his name to Jaco. When I played with him in wayne Cochrans' band he spelled it, "Jocko"
No way
Actually, pianist Alex Darqui knew Jocko but spelled his name Jaco as he was French. Jocko liked this way and started using Jaco instead.
Did he play constantly?
@@davesmith3350 yes, he always had his bass with him.
Was that Robert Gable on Flute?
ah man! this is the best! I've always loved his R & B stuff the best, gonna start rehearsing this with my band now!
Man I love Chuck Rainey. Can still hear him playing behind Marlena Shaw on Loving you was like a Party. Chuck and the late James Jamerson (especially on Stevie stuff) are two of my all time favorites.
This Track is slammin'.......soo good!!!
Wayne has always had wonderful bass players. Groovers and soloists alike. I miss the Miami days still.
Ada
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Jaco never played "random" notes. Every note was played with a purpose and a meaning. And this was all his real early stuff when he was was around 20 years old. Long before his claim to fame with Weather Report.
What's amazing about Jaco's style is NOT what he plays... It's what he doesn't play. They're ghost notes... syncopations... Everyone here's them, but truly, they don't REALLY exist... True story. they're subconscious rhythms in the brain. I don't know if he knew he was playing like that, or if it's just some god given talent that's who he is...
U got it
that's bass...the meaning of bass: playing what is not here!!
Absolutely, Mr. Lis. And when he became famous and there were all those Jaco imitators, he would lament that the would be Jacos didn't understand that his playing was first and foremost about the groove. That's why he was so great.
Shit, what a great show to see...Jaco and Wayne on stage together, so fun. I hope there's video hidden away somewhere. Jaco has killer grove - someone compared his playing to Oscar Peterson, spot on.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I see a lot of comments about Chuck Rainey He is here in Dallas retired, One of the greats as was Jaco
"Jocko" is the way he spelled it for years. I guess you knew that. A French houseguest (I think it was Michel Colombier) jotted him a note using the French spelling and Jaco liked/kept it!
@milesdavidsmith no, outside of certain staccato lines they are very different in sound.
Thank you thank you thank you for posting! This is a gem !
love jaco forever!!
@milesdavidsmith no harm my friend. I appreciate your enthusiasm. my only attemp was to keep info & perceptions clear. i love all music as well......take care : )
Where it all began.......and its the rhythm that Jaco infused into the jazz world
wayne Cochran played at the Castaways n.miami beach house band 67-71 played all week gpro12
The Barn on the 79th street Causeway.anyone remember that place?
Baixo perfeito.
been wondering what this song sounded like ever since I read the Milkowski book
freakin awesome
Now that's grooving!
Is that Gable on flute? I was amazed when Bob would put down the bari and pick up a flute or piccolo. What a woodwind player!
love it!!
2:24 man what a wicked bass solo from pastorius!!!
Jaco was the best and ever will be BUT as big as his ego was, Jaco himself even said he ripped it all. No one "invents" musicality. Anything that has been played has its roots in the past.
why people are often argue about the origins of the sound, the quality of the recording, the personnality of musicians, the false notes etc?? we don't care, we just listen!if it's good, we keep on.If it ain't, next!!
you heard of Larry Graham?
@@JAK0449 vibrations have been running through the universe for eons before the first living being on earth and will probably do so after our passing.
Who the F. is Lenon they Flow our minds (not mind) cray baby F.. Him N all Beatles. Music and the world lost Him. No One words about this. Human being.
Is there any VIDEO of Jaco (Jocko) playing during this era?
@rickdenson it is obvious that jaco would have become the great that he was. But all of us being at a very developmental period at that time we layed down the groundwork for him. Charlie's brilliant writing & guitar playing & the N.O's grease I brought to the table gave him the vision he was looking for to move forward into music history.
Sounds like Jaco's "The Chicken" ... in parts
sonds like a riff off Jaco barbary come on and......
The chicken is not Jaco's, it was written by Pee Wee Willis, Jaco resuscitated.
that's cause it sounds like Jaco: Impeccable time and the one and only Jaco feel.
Yeah, Jaco didn't write The Chicken but it is nearly identical. Probably the same progression, even sounds like the same key.
It’s thee Jaco riff, used it a lot in weather report and on his debut, also on Suite: Golden Dawn off Al Di Meola’s Land of the Midnight Sun. Hell of a track
Charlie wrote arrangements for CC Riders, and eventually ended up with Luther Kent in New Orleans.
Someone turned Wayne's mic off!
His fingerprint is on his style already.
g'day blokes and blokettes! i just put up another track from this collection in my channel! it's called "between races" and features a young pastorius gigging with the peter graves orchestra in 1974. i don't think it has ever been put up on youtube before! pastorius plays some great walking lines and a monster bass intro!
So this is where Jaco got so much of his Rocco Prestia sound?
please repost the songs on the platform again, as the quality could improve
I went to a concert by WC and the CC Riders in 1970. Does anybody know if Jaco was with them at that time?
Jaco played with them from July to December 1972.
Are there any videos of jaco from the time before his debut Lp in -76?
@milesdavidsmith ha ha ha.....I'm not gonna debate you on this....I love Rocco.....but the time line is parallel, not before or after. When TOP was still a, "local band" they opened up for Wayne Cochran at Keystone Berkley. The bass player before Jaco with Wayne was a huge influence on Jaco. The "old timey" record Cochran recorded on Epic was recorded in 1970. Ck out on youtube, "somebody been cuutin in on my groove" by wayne Cochran. We had just recorded that when TOP opened for us.
Both numbers that you're discussing are reminiscent of James Brown instrumentals, he and his band were the true innovators of this style.
Superbe
I've transcribed the head to this if anyone wants it
Sure, brother --- would love to dig on it -- thanks for taking the time to work it out.
I'd love to have a copy!
Yo...I would LOVE a copy
yooo yes please
I'd love a copy :)
@drumncook Oh, I'm sure you know, man. It's just that everyone else seems to know otherwise...
"The influence of Prestia over the great bassist, that Jaco recognized openly, is clear on classic Tower of Power tracks as the 1973 hit 'What is Hip'. "
"His style of 16th note fingerstyle funk has influenced countless bass players, including Jaco Pastorius. "
"...then playing in and around them with contrasting 16th-note fretless runs that recall Jaco Pastorius’s Rocco Prestia influence."
He wasn't as influenced by Rocco as he was definitely influenced by Jerry Jemmott. In fact, although Rocco has his own beautiful style, he himself was influenced by Chuck Rainey and Jerry Jemmott.
There were/are indeed "others",
But at the time,Jaco was an innovator on electric bass,
Those things hadn't been done in his way,people had never heard anything like that!
Even today,some people suggest Wooten and there are also newer bassplayers like Bona,Fereud,Nitti,Garrison,Gwisdala,Tony Grey etc etc.
These people are certainly amazing,but you will rarely hear them Groove,and certainly not like Jaco,
And they KNOW this and are "ok" with it,as everyone Knows Jaco rules!
@drumncook Outside of certain staccato lines that make up 75% of Jaco's signature funk sound, I guess you're right.
@Musicenthusiasm I was merely commenting on their similarities. It is possible that at this point, Jaco was not influenced by Prestia's bass playing. The horn section and dodgy recording reminded me of TOP's awesome 1970 East Bay Grease.
However, I believe Jaco was definitely influenced by Prestia at some point in his career.
I don't appreciate being nit-picked and harassed for an innocent comment. It makes me angry and ruins my day.
@milesdavidsmith what i'm saying, even though they have that in comon, niether one influenced the other.....they came to that part of their style on their own....trust me I know who jaco listened to... : )
Pastorius must have worked A LOT with the metronome, cause his tempo is super accurate
He started as a drummer. You feel that beat.
The metronome companies all calibrate their equipment to young Jaco's bedroom mixes.
Jaco !!!🤮🔥🔥✈️💉
Jaco swings
Bob Gable on flute........Teddy Ludwig on alto
@rickdenson Yes.dat's me... : )
@milesdavidsmith ha ha ha so far only once today...... : )
Somehow I just ain't feelin' it. I know Wayne didn't either.
Check out the interviews with Cochran on Trujillo's Jaco movie. He said he was feelin' it.
He was the best in his style. Nobody is the best. There are many cats who were and are still great, such as Anthony Jackson, Chuck Rainey, Marcus Miller and many others. And we're not even talking about the upright bass, which Jaco was not known for playing. As far as styles other than fusion and funk, in the fall of '75 I heard Jaco, along with Pat Metheny and Bob Moses, "try" to swing. In the words of Ray Brown, he couldn't swing if he was hanging from a rope. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
Magic