The Man Who Taught Jaco Pastorius How To Groove - Jerry Jemmott (Ep. 33)

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Hi everyone! Tonight we're premiering part 2 of our interview series with acclaimed bass musician Jerry Jemmott! Take a look at more of his work on www.jerryjemmott.com
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[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

What a great interview with Jerry Jemmott! Who would you like to see on Odds and Ends next? Btw: Parts 1 and 2 can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3OmZp2KhNSKpMk and here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2LMqZ2Ym6aagM0 Thanks for watching!

[@ptose]

"I'm going to do this because it feels good, I'm making people feel good... and I might just get some along the way"

[@guitarzan2201]

This man is a legend among bass players...Thank you for all the fantastic soulful music you've been part over the decades. Peace Mr.Jemmott

[@frankmerlino7534]

"Maybe this will just go away" LOL great

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

My favorite line lol 😂

[@fbass8657]

Glad he is getting his deserved recognition these days. I wish he could have talked a little more about Tommy Cogbill. Cogbill hands down is the most underappreciated bassist of all time. Not much info or even conversation about his unbelieveable producing and basslines in music history. The Memphis Boys book is about all there is out ther about Tommy. For me Cogbill and Jamerson tie for being the godfathers of electric bass

[@artysanmobile]

I’m so happy to see Jaco here really enjoying himself, unusually at ease, feeling generous and inspired. That part of him gets attention too rarely. He mentioned you many times, Jerry. Thanks so much for your perspective.

[@davidyates9275]

I love hearing Jerry tell all those great stories! He is a treasure.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching!

[@billquigley6556]

I got the Heavy Weather Weather Report album from the public library when I was 14. Still loving Jaco 45 years later.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Can’t believe Jaco had trouble getting work at times…

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

The modern bass DVD is absolutely fantastic!!!! Thank you for making that 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Danny-fs1hk]

What an outstanding interview! I bought that Jaco / Jerry bass tutorial on VHS back in the 80s when it dropped.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching Danny! That tutorial is on KZbin now and it’s 🔥

[@putzengiler]

Saw Jerry play with the Gregg Allman Band around 2010-11, very cool.. ...never got to see.Jaco though, RIP Jaco..RIP Gregg

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

🙏

[@billkarmetsky4003]

Jerry's music has made me feel so good since I was a very young man. I could NOT believe listening to King Curtis's massive hit "Memphis Soul Stew" as a hit record on Minneapolis radio in White suburbia. There was this term "fatback" I just had to learn more about. It was so joyous! Before that as a younger man in upper Michigan I was flipped out by Jamerson and MoTown! My God, one can barely imagine the LOVE coming out of the radios and hi-fi records! 45 RPM heaven! There was everything! I've had a few conversations with Jerry. I wanted to record our talks and post them to YT but I didn't have the software. I sent him some of my bass work. He wrote this to me as a reference and out of honest assessment, "There are not many people who can embrace a style of music and make it completely their own, Bob Marcus happens to be one of them, without the ego that seems to get in the way of many of them. Man can he throw down!" -- Jerry Jemmott, two-time Grammy Award Winner. The one thing I took from Jerry as a musician is this -- make it make. This name "Bill Karmetsky" stems from an inside joke with my ex. Haha!

[@63Baggies]

I actually shook the mans hand many years ago during the Night Passage tour after Weather Report lit up the Birmingham Odeon, one of the happiest moments of my life.

[@fbass8657]

One of the last living bass legends that played during the birthing of electric bass!

[@j.torres6846]

Pressure makes diamonds… Genius!!!🙏

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Indeed they do!

[@bustabass9025]

One of the quintessential studio bassmen who went unnamed for years. His basslines did for Atlantic what Duck and Jamerson did for Stax and Motown respectively. Hard to imagine that the instrument that went on to define the sound of the recorded popular music genres we grew up with, was pretty much in its infancy not so long ago. 🎸

[@skineyemin4276]

You might want to give a little shout out to Carol Kaye, too.

[@bustabass9025]

@@skineyemin4276 ...I'll leave that up to you.

[@skineyemin4276]

@@bustabass9025 Well, she was great as a session bassist.., 10,000 recordings with a pick. So, it's not up to me, it's up to the facts.

[@bustabass9025]

@@skineyemin4276 Well then, that renders your initial comment moot, I'd say.

[@63Baggies]

If ever there was a virtually perfect debut album it was Jaco Pistorius's eponymously named album, honourable mentions, Pat Metheny's 'Bright size life' and Steve Winwood's excellent solo debut.

[@skineyemin4276]

It's spelled, Pastorius.

[@MrMjp58]

Around '87, a friend of mine said he had got a video of Jaco demonstrating his playing etc. The next time I saw him, he said Jaco had passed away. I was dumbstruck. When I got the video myself, I sat entranced by this towering figure being interviewed by Jerry. At least we got to see and hear him in that clear and uncluttered setting, where we could fully and finally as it turned out, appreciate just how magnificent he was. Other great bassists impress me a lot. Jaco goes way beyond that. I can't explain it very well. He was a true phenomenon.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Crazy to hear from Jaco the words "I need a gig, man..."

[@fantasticvoyageofficial4102]

Thanks very much indeed Jerry Jemmott for the Jaco videolesson❤

[@BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul]

Brilliant interview and information 👌🏿 Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤❤️

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching! Check out part 3 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2LMqZ2Ym6aagM0

[@ajadrew]

This was in my recommended list - I recall Jerry with Jaco on his instruction video. I keep thinking about Chuck Rainey for some reason 👍😊

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

I’m so glad it appeared in your recommended! Don’t forget there are two other parts as well! Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3OmZp2KhNSKpMk Part 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2LMqZ2Ym6aagM0

[@ajadrew]

@@OddsAndEndsStayBright 👍😊

[@brianmauk5126]

Great interview! Besides stating the obvious as far as the caliber of musician that Jerry is, I have always admired him as having a very good head on his shoulders. You don’t survive in this industry as long as he has unless you have a solid business sense and how to handle various situations and egos. Yes he is amazing to listen to and very inspiring but he is very well put together and never lost him self in the limelight.

[@aaronfrank9649]

What a great interview. What a great and humble man. So inspiring. Thank you!

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching Aaron Frank!

[@jeffmyers9568]

Wow! What a legend! I could listen to him talk all night. Thanks for posting this.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching! He has no shortage of stories to tell. Here’s part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3OmZp2KhNSKpMk

[@PeekamooseCstm]

This is awesome Clyde met Jerry back in the day with Woody

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Man do they have some great stories! Can't wait to have Jerry back!

[@joemiller8482]

Excellent . . . . .pod cast...

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Really appreciate it Joe Miller! Thanks for watching!

[@jamiepastman5594]

Right before Jaco appeared, on bass Stanley Clarke was all the rage, Lopsy-Lu and the RTF stuff. But, to be honest, it became Stanley Who? once you heard Jaco, it was over.And Stanley is great. But Jaco is like a Mozart, the type of genius that only comes around once every generation or two. Amazing thing is, Allan Holdsworth appeared around the same time. So the 70's gave us two geniuses for all time back to back. In terms of music, the 70's were an incredibly fertile time, which is why so many younger musicians are exploring the music of that time now. Gives me some comfort in what is a very fucked up world now.

[@bassmanjtfunk]

Jerry is a wonderful man. Of course Jaco was influenced him as well as many others. No one can teach you to groove. Come on man. You either got it or you don't. Jerry is one of the greats as was Jaco. Both great. No one will ever be Jaco Pastorius. Be yourself and spread the love ❤️.

[@jastockton1]

Nice piece: Hope you like!

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Thanks for watching! We can’t wait to have Jerry Jemmott back!

[@Twsuf1]

Black Jealousy 😂🤣😅 Jaco taught you!

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Actually Jerry is older! Jerry said that Jaco was influenced by his funky R&B playing and awesome style. Jaco also said he heard things with harmonics that Jerry had not yet even imagined. If Jerry was jealous of Jaco, he wouldn’t have done a DVD for millions to see! He loved and was very impressed with Jaco, which is why he wanted to do it. 😊

[@LokayLakanay]

Awesome !! Thanx for this video !! I'll check the next part

[@riffdigger2133]

5:25 Jaco. So I just bought my 3rd copy of the DVD. Wouldn’t it be great to make a special edition with all the OUTTAKES and fluffs, setting up etc in and EXTRAS section? There must be video footage remaining. And Jerry could do the commentary.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

That would be phenomenal to watch lol

[@skineyemin4276]

It wasn't "Joe Zawinul's group"; it was Joe Zawinul's and WAYNE SHORTER'S group. Don't get it twisted.

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

Yes! That’s true, Clyde and Odds and Ends know that Wayne Shorter was also a founding member as well as Miroslav Vitouš. Clyde was also very close with Victor Bailey, who famously replaced Jaco in 1982. I know most of the public see Joe Zawinul as the lead member, leading to us saying that in the episode. I’m sure you know the relevant info already, but for those who want to learn more, check out the book “No Beethoven” by Peter Erskine! It’s really a great read! 😊 We hope you enjoyed the episode!

[@skineyemin4276]

@@OddsAndEndsStayBright All one has to do is listen to Wayne Shorter's plethora of next level compositions as a leader, his stints with Blakey and more importantly, with Miles. If these people actually listen to what he plays and has been playing, they'd gain a little more realistic perspective in measuring who's was who in the Weather Report and the jazz pecking order.

[@rolandosarabia810]

I'm surprised Cachao wasn't mentioned

[@daiu48]

“ original straight….. Latin… “ the bass groove on Soul Stew ! ? Reminds me of Manteca clave by Dizzy, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller! And Jerry’s credit to Willie Bobo and Ray Mantilla! Jerry was on a Cándido album Beautiful ( Blue Note Records, 1970)

[@happybeach777]

Whats the intro theme song. Not jaco but what you guys use every episode

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

The song is called "Precious Moments" by Clyde Bullard and James Rohlehr (Produced by Jimbo Ro Music)

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

I keep trying to convince Clyde to release it as a single lol

[@happybeach777]

@@OddsAndEndsStayBright He should please! I absolutely love it, very pretty and awesome pocket. I’d love to hear a full version of it if it’s around? Can I buy a Wav format of it? Thanks!!’

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

@@happybeach777 Lemme see what I can do😊

[@saitamayun1995]

Whats the song in 0:43? I wanna know

[@MultiMiles21]

Whats the song in the intro

[@OddsAndEndsStayBright]

It's "A Portrait of Tracy" (around the 2:41 minute mark) found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gImyn5uwpKhgn5o

[@maliwilliams7262]

It's GENETIC!! Jaco got a Lot of Credit for COPYING "Birdlike" Solos on Bass! That's IT!! He STILL was NEVER "Funky"!! That would go to Rocco Prestia, Who, (As an Albion), WAY Out Grooved JACO!! Rocco was Influenced by Paul Jackson, And I KNOW, Cuz it was TOLD to me, PERSONALLY!!, by those who whitnessed IT!! ( And DON'T Ask Wah wah Watson! LOL!!

[@skineyemin4276]

It's genetic and environmental..., The church, the blues, bebop, the segregation, the economics, the food, the African American experience (influenced everything musically post Civil Rights era.. Jaco was never funky like Larry Graham, Paul Jackson and others before them.

[@williambradley8004]

Jaco wasn't funky? That's some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

[@philjhon]

06:06 😉

[@joanstone6740]

Silly JJ wishes he had a 10th of jacos groove

[@63Baggies]

Jaco Pastorius doesn't look the same playing a maple fretboard.

[@skineyemin4276]

Also, the texture of a maple is so hard; a different vibe.