If only every jazz artist had an advocate like label owner/project producer Bob Bobbing. Bass wunderkind Jaco Pastorius seemingly leapt into the jazz scene in 1976 with the quadruple punch of his ...

A transcript of the first meeting between Joe Zawinul, keyboardist/leader of the jazz fusion group Weather Report, and a young player. Young Man: My name is John Francis Pastorius III, and I’m the ...

We’re not going to stare at the stormy, premature sunset. We’re not going to dwell on the sad, headlong fall of one of the world’s most celebrated musicians. Instead, one day after Jaco Pastorius ...

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 ...

Last Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary electric bass player and composer, Jaco Pastorius. Pastorius, who played with Pat Metheny, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Herbie ...

For the jazz trumpet, it was Miles Davis. For the sax, it was Charlie Parker. And for the electric bass, Jaco Pastorius was the man largely responsible for making the instrument a dynamic lead in jazz ...