Credit: /Paul Natkin Ask any bass player to name his top 10 bassists and you'll find that Jaco Pastorius almost always ...

"Fretless bass was an instrument that had been around for a few years, but he just raised the standard of it to a completely ...

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Read What Jaco Said: Thoughts on the Man and His Legacy by AAJ Staff on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz The Low End coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

When Jaco Pastorius first met Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist and composer behind Weather Report, he had his introduction ready. “My name is John Francis Pastorius III,” he said, as Zawinul later ...

Before he was recognized as a culture-changing, once-in-a-lifetime artist, before the comparisons to Picasso and Michael Jordan, before the world tours with Weather Report, before Miles Davis wrote a ...

The Jaco material spans his solo career, his work with Weather Report and collaborations with some of music's biggest names like Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock. Also featured are two interpretations ...

"Jaco" was born John Francis Pastorius III, the first of three sons born to John Francis Pastorius II and Stephanie Katherine Haapala Pastorius. He had Finnish, German, Swedish, and Irish ancestry.