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Prequel to Attack of the Jaco Clones - Jaco Pastorius
Review created: 05/22/03
by: bsproles -- a member of Epinions
Pros: Pure groove-infested bass playing at its finest.
Cons: hahahahah :)
So what do Muhammad Ali and John Francis "Jaco" Pastorius III have in common? They both claimed to be the greatest, and then backed up their words with action. Jaco Pastorius began his meteoric rise with his 1976 self-titled debut album, Jaco Pastorius. Harmonics from hell, sick rhythms, and a keen sense of time are just three of the things that set Jaco apart from his contemporaries. After hearing this debut effort, Jaco was immediately considered a bass god by his fans. Nothing he did since that time with both Weather Report and his own band Word of Mouth could lessen his stature, and a...
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What a debut album!
Review created: 02/07/01
by: Raf_K -- a member of Epinions
Pros: Simply fantastic, an opening to a new musical dimension!
Cons: Too short!
This album is Jaco Pastorius' debut and therefore a landmark in the carreer of the man who would change the face of electric bass playing forever! Jaco Pastorius is better known as a former Weather Report bassist, which contributed to catapult the formation into world fame after the release of their gold album Heavy Weather (I've reviewed that one too). And what a promising debut to carreer that was; here's this kid no-one ever heard about who comes in the jazz scene in the mid-seventies and overwhelms everyone with his unique and unsurpassed skills and inspiration. Jaco was one of the...
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The Debut of the "Florida Flash"
Review created: 05/26/01
by: dlockeretz -- a member of Epinions
Pros: Great bass playing and supporting playing, good variety of music
Cons: Compositions aren't consistent
"I'm a punk from Florida," said John Francis "Jaco" Pastorius in a 1977 interview. It was the year before that Pastorius joined the seminal jazz fusion band Weather Report and released his own revolutionary debut album. As the story goes, his wife, Tracy, was hanging out on a Florida beach when she was approached by Bobby Colomby, drummer of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat