

Pastorius allows Metheny most of the limelight but is a perfect contrapuntal force. Joining Metheny and drummer Bob Moses for the guitarist’s debut led to a dream of asymmetrical phrasing. He’d injured his wrist badly at 13, requiring surgery, and it’s safe to say this affected his unorthodox style.

A French pianist assumed the correct spelling was “Jaco”, which the bassist liked so much he adopted it. At you will find 14 chords & tabs made by our community and UG professionals.
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Bright Size Life (from Bright Size Life, Pat Metheny, 1976)īorn 1951 in Pennsylvania, John Pastorius was given his nickname “Jocko” for his love of baseball. Learn how to play 56 songs by Al Di Meola easily. At least the music from his imperial phase survives. A sorry end, in his mid-thirties, for a man called “arguably the most important and ground-breaking electric bassist in history”.

He fell prey to alcohol and drugs, and was effectively homeless by 1987, when he died after a fight with a bouncer at a Santana concert, where he’d snuck onstage before being ejected. Yet sadly, after his heyday of the late Seventies, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982. His fretless work with Weather Report and Joni Mitchell made him briefly a lionised name. For the uninitiated, Jaco Pastorius’ virtuoso bass lines and technique changed the sound and possibilities of what was generally perceived as a do-the-basics instrument. Trujillo: "Jaco blew my mind" (Image credit: Getty Images) After the success of Robert Trujillo’s documentary about the man who re-invented bass playing, we investigate some of Jaco Pastorius’ career highlightsīass players across all genres worship him as a god.
