Jaco Pastorius Big Band Live in Japan

Live In Japan / Jaco Pastorius Big Band.
Recorded on Sep.1, 1982 at Tokyo, Japan
Jaco Pastorius Big Band :
Jaco Pastorius (el-b)
Don Alias (perc)
Randy Breker (tp)
Peter Erskine(ds)
Bobby Mintzer(sax)
Othllo Molineaux(steel drums)
Elmer Brown,Forrest Buchtel,Jon Faddis (tp)
Ron Tooley,Wayne Andre (tb), David Bargeron(tb,tuba)
Peter Graves (b-tb/Co-Conductor)
Bill Reichenbach (btb), Mario Cruz(sax,clarinet,flute)
Randy Emerick (sax), Alex Foster (sax,clarinet,picoolo)
Paul McCandless(sax,oboe,eng-hone)
Peter Gordon,Brad Warnaar(frh)
1. Invitation (Bronislaw kaper)
2. Soul Intro/the Chicken (J.Pastorius/Alfred James Ellis)
3. Donna Lee (Charlie Parker)
4. Continuum (J.Pastorius)
5. Sophisticated Lady (Duke Ellington)
6. Liberty City (J.Pastorius)
7. Three Views Of A Secret (J.Pastorius)
8. Okonkole Y Trompa (J.Pastorius)
9. Reza/Giant steps/Reza (J.Pastorius/Pastorius/John Coltrane/Pastorius)

[@micahjared8082]

JACO = BASS GOD. I was 17 in 1987, I just started playing bass. For whatever reason he stayed under my radar until I was 30. So Glad I found him. RIP Brother. Try as I might, Ill never play like you ; But I know History will never forget you.

[@rouanetjulie6038]

❤Iove you I want more l how meet you?

[@artysanmobile]

🤗

[@hamham9047]

was probably for the better, imagine finding this motzart at bass thriving and in his prime die the same year you find out abt him😬

[@artysanmobile]

He’d want you to know, so I’ll tell you his real goals, his greatest joys were composing and arranging. This can be heard clearly listening to his first solo album and his second, Word Of Mouth back to back. Okonkole e Trompa, among others on the first record, was indicative of his writing aspirations. His success as a performer had opened the door for Word of Mouth, where his efforts were all about writing and arranging the beauty in his fertile imagination. That skill actually preceded his playing fame by years and he was not through with it when joining Weather Report, a compositional artist. It made him very happy to branch out and the next record after WOM would have been even more orchestral, less bass wizard, but he sadly suffered an extended and crushing spell of depression while touring and could not help himself. A brilliant creator feels the sickness of depression so extremely due to the loss of their prime love - creativity. I spent some of the hardest years of my life trying to help, sharing my own depression experiences, creating a space where we could both pursue musical goals when we were well enough. Obviously, his illness was too severe and I failed terribly. I was not alone in this either. He’d be happy about your fandom, your admiration, how he inspired you. He is badly missed.

[@cliffworks748]

RIP Michael Knuckles 6 June 2023, cancer Jaco's co-producer, road manager, toured globally with world's greatest musicians. cliffworks in tokyo

[@artysanmobile]

Oh my. Thank you for saying this here. I knew Michael well and really enjoyed his company. I mixed Invitation and Twins records in Fort Lauderdale with his assistance as Jaco was on the road at the time. So sad to hear he’s gone.

[@makoto_bass]

great pieces and arrangements and amazing musician...Damn... ↓You can jump to the each tunes 1:27 1. Invitation (Bronislaw kaper) 9:30 2. Soul Intro/the Chicken (J.Pastorius/Alfred James Ellis) 17:48 3. Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) 30:03 4. Continuum (J.Pastorius) 31:57 5. Sophisticated Lady (Duke Ellington) 41:23 6. Liberty City (J.Pastorius) 52:25 7. Three Views Of A Secret (J.Pastorius) 1:03:17 8. Okonkole Y Trompa (J.Pastorius) 1:09:52 9. Reza/Giant steps/Reza (J.Pastorius/Pastorius/John Coltrane/Pastorius)

[@absoluteunit8628]

Thank you!

[@itchcock1]

More like THANK YOU!!! Wow.

[@bigdad7257]

Don’t forget blackbird

[@rouanetjulie6038]

Thank you very much I need can see if I can heard you!!!! ❤

[@sleepzzzxd]

Holy shit this is probably his most flawless live performance

[@rexrathgeber9447]

The son of a colleague of mine was with Jaco in his final days. Jaco was belligerent in shithole pubs and consequently punched out . A misadventure of fist meeting loudmouth. Indeed, the greatest and most revolutionary bassist, ever! I’ve attempted to hire musicians to play his way over the decades, with little success, but still. “ Don’t go shootin cannons cross the River, boy! Sumpin unexpected might turn up!” suddenly becomes more than local wisdom.

[@petercorbett3794]

For a short while, the Pastorius Big Band was peerless. I still think their very best stuff and the ‘Word of Mouth’ LP is probably the pinnacle, the absolute high point of modern music, the most sophisticated modern band sound I’ve ever heard, even better than Weather Report in the audacity of what they were trying to do. I’m still mystified that the record company didn’t like it, surely there comes a point when you accept it isn’t as ‘commercial’ as you’d like but bloody hell it isn’t half good!

[@artysanmobile]

Damn! Thanking you from the heart for your love of the music. Word Of Mouth remains a pinnacle for me and it’s so great to hear a fan describe it like that.

[@eightiesgod]

My God, what beautiful noise. I've must have listened to this album thousands of times while growing up and it still affects me till this day. I was at least 14 when I first heard it and I can now see it live, fabulous....

[@juxtaposeism]

+Eighties God same here - this music is part of my life and musical genes

[@fernandomaldonado3098]

Me too, I can play my ass of ... Because of these guys influence 😂 and Miss these incredible times...God bless Jaco Grasias

[@xn1kkix]

I remember playing Portrait of Tracy, for my bass tech final, junior year of my attendance at Indian River Charter High School. やれやれ Miss u bass god homie, thank you for all the lessons 💖

[@xn1kkix]

37:07 P.S. 😂

[@AlexK878]

Jaco looked so happy here. I think the presence of Toots contributed largely to that - along with Jaco getting to do his own thing with the big band.

[@artysanmobile]

Jaco was very proud to lead such a magnificent band. It showed.

[@garethmtbarnes]

This is the peak of electric bass playing. The ideas, composition, harmony, drive, energy...

[@donaldmoore4412]

Icon. No one will ever reach his heights. What an incredible musician. God Speed, Jaco.

[@slzavec1]

Nowadays many reach and even surpass heavily his heights.... but then it was a vastly different story - he was still on top with this instrument...while many were breathing on his neck already - Jaco re-invented bass guitar playing forever... and those many disciples that followed and took the instrument to other heights (Marcus, Victor Bailey, Matt Garrison, etc...) did it thanks to him. We should cherish this as all those cats do and acknowledge....

[@BrainiacFingers]

@@slzavec1 They may surpass him in technical facility but I've yet to hear a bass player surpass him in musicality. What he could bring to a song - his phrasing, note placement, and sense playfulness - have never, in my opinion, been equaled.

[@jamesrmore]

@@slzavec1 Are you a bass player? Asking for a friend, haha. What a great lineup for 1982. Wow!

[@alessandromarchesini9039]

Jaco Pastorious, Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Scott Lafaro, Chambers, Jack Bruce, Greg Lake, Bill Wyman...Some of the top bass men of ever.

[@PaulFeinberg-il1qt]

Charlie Haden

[@Canyon2023]

So great to see Jaco so happy and smiling! He sounds great with these musicians and a big band!

[@louise_rose]

But this is also the tour where his mental problems began to raise their head for real, isn't it? After the tour ended, Peter Erskine's father, who was a psychiatrist, suggested to his son that Jaco was suffering from bipolar disorder.

[@jrosner6123]

@@louise_rose yep. But this was a good night, and everyone knows the other stuff. It is a sad story, but in the end, most familiar with it choose to embrace the beauty in his legacy, the gift he shared during his time- and how unique of a composer and arranger he was. He earned his place in the annals of music history, and nearly 35 years since his passing, he is still bringing people together-

[@absoluteunit8628]

Jaco was so happy to play that night!

[@tonysimmons5729]

Saw Jacko with Weather Report in Denver but this is a completely different experience with Jaco and an amazing big band. My first time seeing this. My jaw is on the floor. He was a man on fire this night.

[@markusP35204]

A prodigy, a Shooting Star shining bright in the Heavens now. Brilliance!

[@artysanmobile]

Shooting star is beautiful. 👍🏽

[@lordbacon4972]

Shocked to learn that someone as successful as Jaco Pastorius was destitute when he died. Apparently, he was causing trouble and got beat into a coma by a night club bouncer and died shortly after while still in coma in hospital. Sad.

[@elisabethkontomanou6460]

Many great musicians die totally destitute and alone ,take Billie Holiday or Eric Dolphy ... even Mozart !

[@pacrimco]

Jaco and Toots together, not to be forgotten, ever!

[@MrSchmalex]

The duet of Jaco & Toots Thielemans on "Sophistaced Lady" after 31:58 is breathtakingly beautiful and very sophisticated indeed! RIP to two Jazz legends. Let's hope they can play on up there together!

[@jimhealey4961]

Been playing bass since 1967, Wish I could have met Jaco way before, now have to wait. He was the best with using harmonics and so much more. Still play today, limited, one day hope to jam with Jaco and all the greats in the future,

[@lovingit2385]

A young Bob Mintzer on tenor solo on The Chicken.four years later would watch his big band at SOB's in NYC!

[@pastoo25]

The legend. Guy is just adjusting his truss rod at 5:07 in front of +1000 people in live...

[@66TJP]

For years, I wondered what made that little clink noise at that spot right before his solo... (perhaps he tapped one of the pole pieces on a pickup with the screwdriver) had no idea he was adjusting the truss rod....;^)

[@drbassface]

Man, all these years, just noticed!

[@drbassface]

He tightened it on the video...which would have kept the string close enough in the middle of the neck, as well as the rest, to achieve the string buzzing on the neck for the growl. It probably got more humid later in the day, and the neck "let out" a bit. I keep a small screwdriver for my Musicman's Trussrod WHEEL that I can adjust on the fly, even during a song. Important tool. Jaco would have loved the WHEEL!

[@xmac6519]

Thought the same thing!!!! I was like, this dude.......

[@Carehuea]

Been listening to this album for 30 years. I just got to see this video for the first time and just saw what he did. My jaw hit the floor (I'm a bass player too). The balls on him, lol...

[@shawnwilliams562]

This was hot gig,that sound was big,and bold,and the horns burned!

[@swamisMotelBand1]

here's the story i heard . the band is over there ready to rehearse in a gymnasium where jaco called for rehearsal .and in walks with a basketbll ... mania and genius together for centuries

[@narek_avagyan]

Jaco will live in my heart as long as I live ! Jaco is Sweat heart ❤️ The Legend ! The Superhero !

[@michaelgeoffreymurray2795]

Brilliant. And I was there in the audience that night grooving on the great music! Fantastic to relive that great experience.

[@RiveBassCovers]

Lucky duck. How was it like to hear and see Jaco live?

[@absoluteunit8628]

The bass mustve been in your throat with Jaco playing

[@emmanuelmassarotti5535]

In japan ? Wow ! I wish i could

[@RiveBassCovers]

Wish time travel existed. That way I’d go back, and take a flight to Japan to see this concert live

[@jastockton1]

Adios Jaco: Thank you for visiting Earth!

[@MatiShemoeloff]

Jaco was a livin' legend like Davies, Coltrane. and Parker. His voice was remarkably unique radical and new.

[@TheCrutiaolaggo]

Absolutely insane musicianship and energy here. This is a masterpiece of music. THE TUBA PLAYER WHAT

[@artysanmobile]

David dropped the jaws of even the band every night.

[@petercorbett3794]

You either geddit or you don’t. I’m hearing so much in this, it’s taking my head off.

[@rustykuntz94]

Just a amazing band of players here. Randy Brecker on the trumpet! Awesome

[@user-gm7hd2vm5x]

全く同意！ ランディはもっと評価されるべきです。 日本に濱瀬元彦という 音楽家がいます。 彼は、ブレッカー2人のことを物凄く評価していました。 ランディはビバップをよく理解していて、それを発展させる 方法を知っていると言ってました。 ブルーノートと調性、ベースラインブック、弦楽器のための読譜と運指（これは凄い！） パーカーの技法について書物を 出しています。 ジャコとも親交かあって、 来日の際、ウェザーリポートの 新譜を全て採譜して持っていったら、 お前は狂ってる！と言われたそうです。 インタビューもあります。

[@dagostinoification]

The great drummer Peter Erskine ! "souvenirs de NICE FESTIVAL France "with step ahead !

[@anthonymann7411]

Here in 2023 just listening and appreciating his greatness…

[@masahirofujisawa6351]

昔ＦＭ放送でこのライブをカセットテープで録音したものを何回も聴きました。 でもね、途中でテープが終わっちゃったから全部は録れなかった。 今更ながら動画で楽しめるとは。 ありがとうございます。

[@user-zw2db6ro9m]

何度も聞いた演奏が画像で観れる事に感謝！ジャコの全盛期だと思います！

[@minotaka2011able]

オーレックスジャズフェスティバルのレコード化されたテイクとはまた違う演奏で、それもまた素晴らしいですね！

[@beckjeff6334]

亡くなったマイケルもランディーも、この兄弟の凄いところは、いとも簡単に超絶なフレーズを演りまくるところ。 しかもオリジナルで際限無く出て来る。

[@user-gm7hd2vm5x]

👍

[@alfredoremus4409]

Jaco, el más grande bajista eléctrico de todos los tiempos, un creador!!

[@mxmx-hz7li]

non, le plus grand bassiste de tous les temps, c'est MOI !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@facundovaldes]

Gracias alucinante!

[@maximemalecki3153]

Merci.

[@JeremyRutman]

that steel drum player is unbelievable

[@artysanmobile]

Othello Molineaux. As good as they get.

[@artilasyart1787]

The one and only one.Jaco.

[@humandesigndiet]

jaco and peter erskin eis so magic and don alias wow

[@beforeourveryeyes]

Words fail. A gift. Thank you and for the credits.

[@anthonywhite2960]

Every superlative I can think of to describe Jaco's playing seem insufficient. The first eight minutes of this concert are a joyous thing to behold.

[@timkjazz]

Astounding greatness, pure music.

[@micahjared8082]

Ive watched this 47x in 3wks. I can now say its SMASHING. Good Lord this $hit is on point.

[@juliaimazio1458]

oh, my God! Listening to Jaco elevates me to other galaxies!!

[@Livius4]

Più sento questa roba e più rimango folgorato, sembrava così caotica al primo impatto....... ma poi quanta abilità e soprattutto genialità nella realtà, santi numi quanta !!!

[@Piero2374]

Col tempo e la pazienza si impara ad orientare l'ascolto verso la giusta direzione. Jaco è un pò più a briglia sciolta, ma resta sempre un fottutissimo, geniale musicista col suo inconfodibile Fender...

[@Livius4]

@@Piero2374 Accidenti, hai risposto a un mio commento antico che non ricordavo più !

[@noriheiful]

Thank You Jaco! Thank You You!

[@anne-marielepersonne5728]

Ils sont tous là, les dieux du jazz, JACO ! et tous les autres merveilleux . Quel splendide concert ! j'aurais tellement aimé y être ....

[@markpettigrew542]

Now THAT is how to play Tuba!

[@klauswhitedreamer]

Amazing concert, Jaco was briliant! ♥️😽

[@xlfutur1]

Forrest Buchtel in the trumpet section? wow, I used to play 10 dollar big band gigs with Forrest in the 90s in Chicago. I had no idea he was on this gig! Sure can tell Faddis was playing lead though!

[@pjmjazz]

I was probably on those 10 dollar gigs with you and him! A couple years ago, Forrest was sharing some stories with me about touring with Jaco!

[@yuminakayama3086]

At that time, I heard the live broadcast on the radio📻

[@jiyujizai]

日本でのこのようなパフォーマンスを誇りに思うなぁ。

[@stevetolman6652]

Mintzer-Breker-Pastorious and of course they had to go to Japan to be appreciated....!!

[@rustykuntz94]

Great players everywhere here, same lineup played Montreux Jazz festival in 82 also.

[@lucasbretels]

Super concert!

[@gustavopagano2436]

nadie arriesgó tanto jamás en directo... Jaco era una caja de sorpresas. Los músicos que le acompañaron, no siempre se lo tomaban bien (como J. Mclaughling), pero el resultado de esta explosión de espontaneidad, es indudablemente una auténtica genialidad. Ojalá la música moderna nos traiga en algún momento algo remotamente similar a estas descargas de arte

[@tabathastaples7884]

Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Chapter by Chapter / Verse by Verse !!!!!!! Amen

[@SandraGarcia-pn8zs]

El glorioso adiós del genio del bajo eléctrico.

[@cobaltsls]

Nice! I had this lp back in the day...always wanted to see what I hearing...quite a band stacked with jazz legends

[@davewattimena3491]

unforgetable Jaco..

[@elizabeththomson7807]

And so happy - not often we saw him so relaxed and smiling, it's a joy.

[@michaelalderete9622]

Dang! Miss that boy, saw him live, twice, once unexpectedly in Joni Mitchell's band (holy cow! Jaco, Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Alias; no one told me!), once with Weather Report.

[@jakewilson7429]

whyd you forget lyle mays

[@georgeeldridge7954]

@@jakewilson7429 He said 'mays'

[@aldostella7585]

Fenomenale! Grazie Jaco !

[@balthazartyshow1765]

🦎 Very ° thanks 👍 ' 🎵 🎶 ⚡ 🎶 🎵 ' 💥

[@JosephTellaroli]

Super Jaco ! so good so far...

[@grillosaint]

It is not the first time I hear Continuum. But really What a beautiful sound.

[@richardreyes5126]

Okonkole y trompa is my spirit dancing I love this combo of horn conga and bass harmonics absolute masterpiece.

[@artysanmobile]

It was my favorite piece from the first album and Jaco loved it. It was a forewarning of what was to come on Word Of Mouth.

[@JonMargolis]

this is as good as it gets. Bravo

[@migorigor8819]

Ohhh yeahhh King+ 2022 :)

[@lovingit2385]

Dave Bargeron on Tuba from BS&T

[@drewper73]

lovingit2 I wasn't aware of the musicians who played in this band and in Blood, Sweat, & Tears until recently. Randy Brecker was a founding member. Don Alias, Lou Marini, and Jaco himself were members of BS&T at one time. I'm still learning.

[@ketchasketch]

I played Tuba in my youth much better than this.

[@warmsteamingpile]

Thank you!

[@rbrchuckie]

Always the best bassist.Le Creme..........

[@petercorbett3794]

You have to kind of graduate this. It’s the greatest modern big band you’ll ever hear, take it away…

[@KhalDrogo76]

JP - my hero

[@OlemirCandido]

Awesome.

[@profelugo]

Lo que me impresiona mas es que vuelca toda su técnica talento y conocimiento sin leer un impreso

[@NewJeansHowSweet]

Toots Thielemans (Harmonica)

[@rastapastrychief]

octaves @ 46:08 so great. He had "Liberty City" & "3 Views" sounding so great live.

[@massimocalde007]

Bass monster

[@jocelynehalmes8925]

So so good!!! ❤❤❤

[@miguelangelmartin2049]

At 38:00 starts one of the most beautiful moments of Jaco's recordings. I usually see it repeatedly...

[@mortesanta4924]

so beautyfull

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love your work!!

[@user-rg1hm3rw9g]

I wanna hear "Mr.Jaco Pastrius!!"

[@Leofiora]

Todos unos musicos increibles.

[@user-bp3se7zm2x]

“Base tone has some faces” I knew listen Jaco's play!

[@user-bp3se7zm2x]

Before Jaco woodbasists saids「Electricbase is toy!」 Jaco made change World's spiritual sense!

[@musicartgeek]

"Three Views Of A Secret". What can one say.

[@Extrikit]

Heavy Weather did it for me.

[@gregeck5375]

For the grand finale, start at 1:09:25...then enjoy the nearly 12-minute ride!

[@franjua5300]

thx, this is awesome. i love jaco and his band

[@JTPrime08]

Same.

[@iambeepbop2452]

Same.

[@user-cs9gp2dp9n]

素晴らしい❣️

[@ricknurse7]

Great band - understated, but wtf, LOL. Luved Jaco!! Have to give a huge shoutout to Jon Faddis, gawd!! He definitely had his Jon Faddis monster chops with him.

[@thomashudson3694]

That's pretty sick I've been listening to jacco since the early eighties when I started playing bass and got his instructional video at a music shop thank God this footage is archives of people can see what he was

[@sharkpuppetripoff1483]

Yeah! Everybody was amazing, like cheese, yeah!

[@killacamfoo]

wow.

[@ronaldwardenaar5350]

One word: Legendary!!

[@user-bp3se7zm2x]

Even only 4strings when sway bassstringｓmy heartstring sway too! Jako happened revolution！！