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Free Music Review: One of the top 5 albums I own.
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard of Jaco when I did a project on him for my Instrumental Music class in high school. I found his name on a list of bassists(we had to choose a musician of our intrument) and looked him up online, finding all these sites proclaiming Jaco to be the 'Greatest Bass Player Ever!' I remember thinking that there were so many great bassists that I loved, how could this guy top them? I listen to so many types of music and am particularly into Classical music, Jazz, and Progressive Rock like Dream Theater and Rush. I'd heard some of the best music (in my opinion) and some of the best musicians, and yet Jaco's album completely blew me away. Granted, the musicianship he crafted for bass was extremely appealing to me, being a bassist, but even now, after not having played for over a year, I get the same chills from these songs as I did before. His grooves simply are amazing. Opus Pocus and Continuum are some of my favorites off this one, but Portrait of Tracy is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, and one of the most enjoyable songs to learn to play. The harmonics on bass in that song are genius, to a musician or just to a regular music fan. Now I really know why he was hailed as the best bassist ever, because he was. Simple as that. If you love this album after you buy it, get his Birthday Album, equally amazing. His Intro/The Chicken groove is so energy-filled that its like a party being released into your room. Word of Mouth is another album I love by Jaco, particularly his version of J.S. Bach's 'Chromatic Fantasy' (Incredible!!) and Paul McCartney's 'Blackbird'. Basically, if you're a big jazz lover like I am, you should love this stuff, and buy as much as you can from him.Free Music Review: alchemist
Hit: 5 Stars
Speechless, breathtaking. I remember vividly. 1977. The true music world has already accepted(with three open hands) fussion of jazz with rock(though this definition is not always true, better to say "music with more truth"). It was wintertime, and i received a call from my friend Gordan for joining him and taste some new LP records. And history begun. After first tones and chords, we did not realize that we had the most divine experience in our simple and stupid high school lives. JACO. Jaco. Emotions. Heavy and oblique, and dark and lucid, and lyric and fender(ish)and sweet and misterious, and definite and classical, and hystorical and joyfull. Life. Oh, thanks god i was alive and young that time and I was not then with my definite taste about music. Jaco changed my views about music, improvisation and composition. And I think , the most important he changed my way of feeling particular tones of music. The " F" tone on Jaco's fretless 1960 jazzbass (with four of five famous scratches and fissuraes) is not the same tone on any electric bass in the world ever recorded. You immediately know----"It's Jaco" And what a tone. Is any medical or psichological explanation about the feeling of Jacos walking fretless , full of false harmonics melody line. Is there any medical explanation why you fall in love with a woman? Of course not.Buy this album, accept the electric bass god, look into his cool(cat) sometimes tired floridian face. Try to feel him. Dont judge.Only listen.
Welcome neophyte listener. Welcome into new world.
Free Music Review: It's obviously brilliant! but you must need to show patience.
Hit: 5 Stars
May be, there is no body who denies this piece value.
But Be careful~! when do you evaluate & comment on it.
I think that, (as Pat Metheny said) "it is difficult for people who weren't around at the time of his emergence to fully weigh the impact of his contribution" except someone who has ever seen the jaco's debut and has been on the edge of changes in 'Bass' perfomance style and who run to bass playing.
People say that usually, "Jaco was the best bass player", "the best album ever I heard", "good~! very coo~~~l"
Don't conclude the album is good or bad on impulse.
What you should do, knowing the given condition at Jaco's debut.
For example, the change of a bass's role and sound in Fusion/jazz rock bands, on the contrary the role/sound like simple rhythm part in traditional bands.
And it is fantastic to look into the another bass players as compasred with Jaco. Stanley Clarke, Ron Carter, Scott Lafaro and more.
Jaco's playing is very different from another's. The different players had performed as perfoming the "instrument" but Jaco had perfomed like a singer~!.
Jaco has been singing a song with Fender Bass.
"Continuum" the track 3 contained the record is driving me crazy~!
Yeah~ I know, this is nothing but a impression.
The feeling of the piece varies from person to person.
But try to remember this~!
If you try to show patience, you must get it much more.
Free Music Review: The Father of fretless electric bass
Hit: 5 Stars
At long last, the stunning debut album by Jaco Pastorius gets the royal treatment by the folks at Sony Legacy. Recorded in 1976 prior to joining Weather Report, it's clear from the first bar that this man is serious business!!! From the opening track, a cover of the Charlie Parker classic "Donna Lee"(written by Miles Davis) featuring Jaco only accompanied by a conga player to the final cut "Forgotten Love",it's very apparent that we're hearing something we've never heard before. Pastorius took the bass from being a support instrument, to front and center, without being tedious or overdone. Other highlights of this album include "Portrait of Tracy", and "Continuum". "Jaco Pastorius" features excellent support from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, David Sanborn, Michael Brecker and Lenny White. This reissue also features two unreleased tracks that were not part of the original LP. The booklet features rare photos from the recording sessions and has great liner notes written by Pat Metheny. The 24-bit remaster is a tremendous sonic improvement over the original CD issue and the disc label even has the original orange Epic logo on the disc. A first class reissue of a fusion jazz classic.Free Music Review: The Eternal Bass Master
Hit: 5 Stars
I was about a year old when this cd came out. I heard it in 1992 just as I was getting into Jazz. Ten years later, and after getting way into Jazz and having gone through a myriad of artists, when it comes to electric bass, Jaco is THE Master. Period. I mean, Victor Wooten and Marcus Miller can play faster and with more technical flash than Jaco, but so what? Faster is not better at all. And besides, after someone has already blown the door of possibilities open for you, it ain't THAT hard. What Jaco did on this album was completely and utterly innovative at the time. No one was even close, not even Stanley Clarke. So, this many years later this album still holds up. Not only was Jaco an absolute bass monster, his compositions are also very unique, and the arrangements (all by him) are great. The masterwork of the ultimate Bass Genius. Period.