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“He already had his signature tone and touch, and a few of his signature licks, too”: A year before he was discovered, Jaco Pastorius laid down this classic R&B bassline on Little Beaver’s 1974 hit, I Can Dig It Baby

Recorded a year before he was discovered by Blood Sweat and Tears drummer Bobby Colomby, I Can Dig It Baby finds Jaco Pastorius in his prime

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“I totally respected Jaco's bass playing, but that 16th-note triplet funk thing – it just wasn't in his repertoire”: Weather Report drummer Chester Thompson on why Jaco Pastorius struggled to swing

In 1975, Jaco Pastorius replaced Alphonso Johnson in Weather Report, but for drummer Chester Thompson, playing with Jaco was “like oil and water”

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“Jaco’s groove is like a fingerprint – nobody can duplicate it”: Listen to Jaco Pastorius’ isolated bassline on Weather Report’s Barbary Coast

Weather Report’s 1976 cut introduced the world to the full-tilt boogie of Jaco Pastorius

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“On four-strings you have to jump to get the second octave, but on the five-string it’s right there”: Mohini Dey reflects on her switch to five-string basses – and the advice her dad gave her about Jaco

Mohini Dey has achieved more with the bass guitar than most of us achieve in a lifetime. And she’s only just getting started

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“Roger Glover got me into Jaco. I heard the stuff he was doing with Weather Report while Priest were at the same studio in the ’70s”: Judas Priest’s Ian Hill names 8 bassists who shaped his sound

A mainstay of chug-and-slug for over five decades, the veteran bassist reveals the surprisingly wide range of influences that feed into the metal gods’ low-end –

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Chester Thompson: 10 albums that define my career - "The funny part is, I actually taught Phil Collins the In The Air Tonight drum fill"

From Abe Laboriel to Zappa, Chester Thompson shares some of his career highlights following the release of his new solo album, Wake Up Call

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“There was bass before Jaco and after Jaco; his playing turned my whole life around”: How Norman Watt-Roy brought a bit of Jaco to Ian Dury’s Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Just a few weeks after seeing Weather Report at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, Norman Watt-Roy found himself in the studio with Ian Dury and the Blockheads

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“I introduced Sting to Miles Davis, and that blew Sting’s mind!” Darryl Jones on providing the punch for Sting, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones

After stints with Miles Davis, Madonna, and Sting, Darryl Jones found a home on The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge

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“I said, ‘Really? You don’t practise any more?’ He said, ‘One day I just sort of realised I could play.’ I’m wondering if I’ll get to that level… we’re about to find out!” Pat Metheny just wants to understand music

Multi-faceted pioneer hasn’t played guitar for six months - but he’ll be up and working by 5am every day

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Marcus Miller at EFG Jazz Festival review: virtuosic brilliance from the world's coolest thumbslinger

Part showman, part musical Shaman, Miller led his talented band through a setlist of fan favourites and deep-cuts

Evening Standard

"So Jaco Pastorius and Joni Mitchell walk past and ask, ‘Hey, is there a party here?’." The story of Italian prog legends PFM

Newly signed to InsideOut Music, Italin prog legends Premiata Forneria Marconi return with new album Emotional Tattoos in both English and Italian

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“I made a point of never listening to Jaco until I was forced to in 1995!” Mick Karn: an interview with Japan’s fallen bass hero

"I tend to look at the bass guitar in much the same way as a vocalist might a lead vocal": Words of wisdom from the avant-garde fretless icon who would have been 65 this year

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“Prince was serious about what he wanted. He would turn around, point to you and say, ‘Go!’”: Josh Dunham names the five albums that helped shape his sound with Prince

According to Josh Dunham, having chops is cool, but playing with Prince you really had to play in the pocket

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10 all-time classic bass guitar tones - and how to recreate them

Delving into some of the best low-end tones of all time

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“I made my own bass and used bicycle brake cables as strings…” How Richard Bona went from homemade guitars to being hailed as “the African Jaco”

"I don't want to play for bass players – I want to play for truckdrivers! I want people to dance!" The rise of a reluctant virtuoso

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"Come and see this!" Inside Jaco’s Weather Report audition and the making of Havona

Discovering Jaco and the recording of Heavy Weather standout track Havona: "It’s definitive Jaco!"

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Ian Hunter: an absolutely epic interview

He’s older than rock’n’roll itself, and back with an all-star cast on his new album on Sun Records. Here he talks to about working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 70s

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Marcus Miller: “The phone rings in my hotel room and it was Jaco Pastorius”

Marcus Miller on the whole tone lick he learnt from Jaco Pastorius and why replacing him in Weather Report was “a beat down waiting to happen!”

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Jeff Berlin: “Look at Jaco Pastorius: clearly a genius, but misunderstood”

Jazz bassist Jeff Berlin debunks a myth surrounding Jaco’s early years

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Steve Lukather: "The bassline was easy. It wasn't like I had to be Jaco Pastorius"

How the legendary guitarist ended up playing bass on Michael Jackson’s Beat It

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Wayne Shorter obituary

Saxophonist and master improviser with artists ranging from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, and with lineups including Weather Report

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