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This story of a musician hailed as a genius and dismissed as a madman will appeal to anyone intrigued by the fine line between creative inspiration and insanity. Jaco looks deep inside the life and music of this talented but tormented bass player who revolutionized his instrument and became one of the most potent forces in modern music. Like his heroes Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, Jaco didn't make it to age 40. But by the time he died at 35, the music world was indebted to him. Jaco had reinvented the role of the electric bass - playing melodies, chords, harmonics and percussive effects simultaneously, and bridging the gaps between jazz, classical, R&B, rock, reggae, pop, and punk. Jaco rode his fame like a
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This story of a musician hailed as a genius and dismissed as a madman will appeal to anyone intrigued by the fine line between creative inspiration and insanity. Jaco looks deep inside the life and music of this talented but tormented bass player who revolutionized his instrument and became one of the most potent forces in modern music. Like his heroes Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, Jaco didn't make it to age 40. But by the time he died at 35, the music world was indebted to him. Jaco had reinvented the role of the electric bass - playing melodies, chords, harmonics and percussive effects simultaneously, and bridging the gaps between jazz, classical, R&B, rock, reggae, pop, and punk. Jaco rode his fame like a skyrocket to oblivion. This book begins that trip with Jaco's first gigs on the Florida nightclub circuit in the late '60s, follows him on tour with Wayne Cochran & The C.C. Riders in the early '70s, and traces his whirlwind evolution into an international star with Weather Report by 1978. But Jaco also reveals the artist's private battle with manic-depressive psychosis aggravated by substance abuse, and describes his tragic downfall that led to homelessness and bizarre behavior on the streets of New York, institutionalization, release, and a senseless, violent death in 1987.

Jaco takes an in-depth look at this talented but tormented genius. Readers follow Pastorius's development as a bassist, watch him catapult to international fame with Weather Report, learn about the formation of his own well-received band, and witness his eventual downfall. Photos.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780879304263
  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Publication date: 8/1/1996
  • Pages: 263
  • Sales rank: 642,659
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.09 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 18, 2006

    Jaco's Legacy is not sold short

    Jaco was always quoted with 'It ain't bragging if you can back it up.' Bill Milkowsi¿s book goes to show that Jaco always could. He is known today as the most influential bass player in the world. If you play the bass, you are influenced by his playing one way or another. Every time you turn on the radio, you hear a sheer imitation of what Jaco created. The Book started all the way at the beginning with Jaco growing up and being influenced by his father John Pastorius, who was a jazz singer and who was rarely there for Jaco¿s childhood. It then followed Jaco¿s career starting with him playing with Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders to playing with Pat Metheny in his trio. Jaco was young at the time, but he knew he was good and he could prove it. He always had an interest in playing with Weather Report and when he first approached Joe Zawinul, he straight up went up to him and said, ¿I¿m the greatest bass player in the world.¿ Zawinul simply shooed him away thinking that he couldn¿t back it up. He ran into him a few months later hearing him play and he couldn¿t belief what he was hearing. He immediately talked to Jaco and he became a member of Weather Report. Jaco became a hit instantly, but he also became introduced to drugs and alcohol as a cost of being famous. People would come up to him at shows and offer him drugs, and he felt like he had to in order to please his fans. It started down a long line of drug and alcohol abuse. After his days in Weather Report, his life just became a downhill slide to destruction. He was put in mental institutes and rehab, but nothing helped. Then in September 1987, he was beaten in to coma by a bouncer outside of a club. A few days later, he had the plug pulled and died on September 21. This book focused a little too much on the downfall of Jaco and how his life became such a disaster. But Milkowski did it to get the point across that drugs and alcohol can destroy you no matter how brilliant you are. I really liked how the book went into deep detail about his playing and had so many different players quoted about how much Jaco changed their lives. Bill Milkowski is a journalist for many jazz magazines, so it was nice that the author actually new what he was talking about. Although, I did think that the book focused a little too much on his demise and not enough on his brilliance, it was a still a great book that told the tale of one of jazz¿s greatest legends.

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