Jaco had a boatload of music to learn, and they weren’t just tunes they were all written-out things, complicated stuff, and he had a couple of resentments going on at the time.” Then we went into the studio to record the album. We premiered it in Japan, then we played it on the U.S. I was spending a lot of time with Joe at his house–it wasn’t on salary we only got paid when we were on tour–and we’d work on these new tunes, and then Jaco came to L.A. Jaco was spending a lot less time in California than he had been.
Compositionally, the tunes were that much more through-composed, and there was a lot more self-sufficient keyboard bass activity. “The band just came out and killed.” Įxplaining the circumstances leading up to the album, Erskine told Zawinul biographer Brian Glasser, “The Weather Report album to me was a very big stepping stone to where Joe eventually wound up going. “It was a late afternoon set, and we tore the place apart,” Peter Erskine recalled. Recorded at the Power Station in New York in the summer of 1981, most of the music had been played during the band’s spring tour, capped by a triumphant performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles in June. Weather Report was the last album for the Pastorius-Erskine rhythm section. Now we’ve got a band and it’s going to be for a while, I guarantee it.” Zawinul had no way of knowing it at the time, but by year’s end he and Shorter would be starting over. Jaco’s bass is his own sound, his own personality. You see, the secret of having a great band and being able to write great is to be able to write for the people you play with, because everyone has a different sound.
If someone couldn’t handle it, he could never be in this band. “There are very few of us to run around, I guarantee you.
“Good musicians are a luxury, but it is something you have to find,” he said. In an interview published in January 1981, Joe Zawinul talked about the difficulty of putting together a good band. There's also links to some of his output, if you click on the album covers you can find out a bit more about each album.Electric keyboards, piano, clay drum, drum computer, percussion, voice, horn, woodwind, string and brass sounds performed on electric keyboards
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I've included a couple of Youtube videos, "Teen Town" which I loved from the moment I heard it, and "A Portrait of Tracy" which provides a great lesson in the use of bass harmonics, plus if you have a look under the "interview" section there's an interview he did with Jerry Jemmott. Jaco inspired me, as I hope he may inspire you if you're just finding out about him.
To say I was influenced by him would be kind of overstating things, I can't say that I'd tried to play like him, because, that was beyond me then, and still is really, although I'm working on it. This was my introduction to Jaco Pastorius, by then I'd already been playing bass for a couple of years, and he just blew my mind.
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It haunted me for years not knowing how to track it down (there was no internet in those days) until I borrowed the "Heavy Weather" album from a guitarist friend. The theme tune to this particular show was "Birdland" by Weather Report.
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"Strangers" was a TV cop show that went out in the UK in the 1970's starring Don Henderson, as a kid I lapped up TV shows and my first real exposure to music was TV show theme tunes.
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