This week our highlight is Jaco Pastorius!
Many of you know a great deal about him already. For those who may be new to the Jaco 'experience,' John Francis Pastorius III was a rare and wonderful spirit, brimming with life and vitality, who traveled through this world in what to him was the noblest profession - a musician. A genuine 'phenomenon', Jocko came of age in Florida during the 1970s, where he was raised on a blend of rock-n-roll, R&B, jazz, classical, island and Latin music. He possessed unbelievable levels of natural energy and talent, both creative and technical; skills he shaped into a language that let his remarkable and beautiful inner voice take flight through the instrument. His ability to combine incredible precision of note and meter with a profound inner spirit allowed him to reach inside and touch the listener's most intimate and vulnerable emotions. He was a visionary who looked to the past, an R&B player who looked to jazz, a jazzman who looked to rock-n-roll, an innovator who drew from everywhere creating things that were completely new. Through a combination of hard work, ballsy ambition, and an expansive yet singular inner vision, he brought the electric bass guitar into musical adulthood. And in the process, he gave birth to some of the most beautiful and compelling music that's ever been played. Period y'all.
But of course, Jaco is so much more. What makes his music so infectious is also what made his life so incredible - he lived it from inside each new moment. He was all about exploring and extracting the maximum out of each moment of life. The smile was one of Jaco's trademarks. It was a natural outgrowth of what he did. Jaco's music was about joy, spirit, and freedom; his life was about adventure. Revered as a genius by some and a god by others, and recognized around the world as a true 'American original,' people everywhere respond to the passion and above all to the naked honesty of his life and music
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