“Palladium,” written by Wayne Shorter, from Heavy Weather (1977).
Joe Zawinul (keyboards, synthesizer), Wayne Shorter (sax), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuña (drums), Manolo Badrena (congas, percussion).
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Sunday Music & MMW & Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus
“Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus,” Medeski, Martin and Wood, Shack-man (1996).
John Medeski (organ, keyboards), Billy Martin (drums), Chris Wood (bass, guitar).
Jaco & Opus Pocus
“Opus Pocus” by Jaco Pastorius. This is a demo tape recording made in 1974 which is included on the posthumous album The Early Years Recordings (2006).
Don’t quote me on this, but I think the personnel is: Jaco Pastorius (electric bass), Herbie Hancock (keyboards), Othello Molineaux (steel drums), Leroy Williams (steel drums), Lenny White (drums), Don Alias (percussion).
Jaco Pastorius & Three Views of a Secret
From Word of Mouth (1981).
Jaco Pastorius (bass), Herbie Hancock (keyboards, synthesizers), Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker and Tom Scott (saxophone), Toots Thielemans (harmonica), Chuck Findley (trumpet), Howard Johnson (tuba), Don Alias (percussion), Peter Erskine and Jack DeJohnette (drums).
Night Radio Wraps Rocktober
with Rockit.
UPDATE: And a Monster Mashup Grand Finale.
Consecration Day 27 & Jaco Pastorius & Portrait of Tracy
Jaco Pastorius, “Portrait of Tracy,” from the debut album Jaco Pastorius (1976).
Today starts the last week of consecration, devoted to the Knowledge of Jesus. Consecration text here. Video here:
Consecration Day 6 & Fusion Interlude & Weather Report & River People
Weather Report live, “River People,” Offenbach, Germany 1978. Jaco Pastorius (bass and composition), Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (soprano sax), Peter Erskine (drums). I’m fond of the studio version on Mr. Gone (1978), but I actually like this live version better because they get a monster groove going, and nice recording quality.
Now to the main business at hand, the text for Total Consecration is here, with video here:
Sunday Music & Sunday & Jaco & Colombier
From Michel Colombier’s album Michel Colombier (1979).
Michel Colombier (piano), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Herbie Hancock (synthesizer), Steve Gadd (drums), Lee Ritenour (guitar).
Jaco Revisited & Punk Jazz
From Jaco Pastorius Big Band: Word of Mouth Revisited, a Jaco Pastorius tribute album (2003) that has been featured earlier. There are no bad cuts on this album, at all.
Richard Bona channels Jaco on bass, with Mike Scaglione soloing on tenor sax, and Mark Griffith on Drums. Music by Jaco Pastorius, with orchestration and arrangement by Larry Warrilow and Peter Graves. Woodwinds: Billy Ross, Ed Calle, Gary Keller, Mike Brignola. Brass: Jeff Kievett, Jason Gardner, Ken Faulk Dana Teboe, John Kricker. Peter Graves directs.
2001 Theme & Deodata
I got on a 2001 kick and this where I ended up, the jazz arrangement of the theme for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey (the fanfare of Also Sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss). From Eumir Deodata’s album Prelude (1973).
This arrangement made a big impression on me from the movie Being There (1979), in the scene where Peter Sellers’ character walks out of his house for the first time in his life (below). But I hadn’t realized what an all star lineup was on this track, including Eumir Deodata (keyboards), Stanley Clarke (bass), Billy Cobham (drums), John Tropea (guitar), Airto Moreira (percussion).
