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Jaco Pastorius
A community portal about Jaco Pastorius with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Jaco Pastorius was a jazz bassist and composer, notable for his virtuoso technique and fretless bass playing style. His influence on... [more]
A community portal about Jaco Pastorius with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Jaco Pastorius was a jazz bassist and composer, notable for his virtuoso technique and fretless bass playing style. His influence on modern electric bass playing is widely recognized and he is considered by many to be the most innovative electric bassist ever. He popularized the fretless electric bass and introduced a textural approach and harmonic sense. Although he was acclaimed as a virtuoso and a musical genius, he also suffered from mental health problems and substance abuse issues that were eventually to be contributory factors to his untimely death.
(images: jacop.net, pocketpcmag.net) Warning: If you consider yourself a wine snob, or are easily offended (or both), then I am about to lose you as a friend with this post. Because I am here to tell you that "Fruit Bombs" (those wines made in a style that deliberately dials up the varietal fruit and shoves it right into your face) are OK. No, really, I'm serious. They're OK. Yes, they really are. YES, they ARE. Now, before I explain why Fruit Bombs are OK, I need to tell you a little...
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I realized I had yet to give a shout out to one of my favorites, Jonas Hellborg. I first became interested in his playing with John McLaughlin. Especially his use of flat 2nds and Middle Eastern scales and modes. So I started digging around to find cool videos of Jonas and I come across him playing with a trio on the streets of Bombay! OK, how cool is that! I watched the video over and over just to check the variety of human experiences going on[see video below]. The shop keeper that ignores...
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The revolution is on! Do you notice that bass playing in the world [and I do mean the world] has taking on a whole new life. The instrument has become a solo instrument! Much to the chagrin of guitar players everywhere LOL. We are now more then support players for keyboard and guitar players. 10 years ago did you ever think that we would be leading bands and doing solo performances. This is just amazing to me and obviously it has raised the bar for all of us. I knew this was coming when I...
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After nearly 20 years the holy grail of electric basses, Jaco Pastorius’ Bass of Doom, turned up in New York City recently. Bass Player Magazine’s Chris Jisi got to play the magnificent beast along with Will Lee, Victor Wooten and Victor Bailey. Jisi writes the most interesting tale of the Bass...
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After nearly 20 years the holy grail of electric basses, Jaco Pastorius’ Bass of Doom, turned up in New York City recently. Bass Player Magazine’s Chris Jisi got to play the magnificent beast along with Will Lee, Victor Wooten and Victor Bailey. Jisi writes the most interesting tale of the Bass...
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