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...(Among his tattoos is a portrait of a musical ancestor, Jaco Pastorius.) Opener “Innerstellar Love” was cosmic jazz-soul with busy bass notes bubbling like lava....
...Pastorius....
...The album starts with Elling accompanied only by Clark Sommers’s double bass in “The Fanfold Hawk”, inspired by Franz Wright’s poem “The Hawk”, based on music by the late bassist Jaco Pastorius....
...On “For Jaco”, Castañeda’s fluid lines echo the sound of Jaco Pastorius’s bass guitar and on Piazolla’s “Libertango”, the sound of a wheezy accordion briefly takes centre stage....
...The Square, 6-10 Bruton Street (020-7495 7100; squarerestaurant.com) The last music I downloaded was the fusion jazz piece Liberty City, by Jaco Pastorius, who was probably one of the last geniuses in music...
...Richard Bona’s instrumental prowess borders on the legendary and his credits stretch from Harry Belafonte and Bob James to Joe Zawinul and a bass chair in the Jaco Pastorius heritage big band....
...The piano trio covered Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius and the song “Bright Size Life”, written by Pat Metheny, with whom Simcock is soon to work....
...Pastorius and drummer Peter Erskine....
...Pastorius in the mid-1980s....
...In 1982, he replaced legendary Jaco Pastorius in seminal fusion band Weather Report, just after Pastorius had transformed the role of the bass from solid support work to a defeat-all-comers lead....
...When he did emerge into the limelight, he deftly mixed the fleet-fingered runs of a Jaco Pastorius – celebrated by a cover of Weather Report’s “Havona” – with the full-on thump of Charles Mingus in his prime...
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