VLVL2 (12): Jaco Pastorius

[Tim Strzechowski]

"jaco restructured the function of the bass in music in a way that has affected the outcome of countless musical projects to follow in his wake - an innovation that is still being absorbed by rhythm section players to this day - he showed the world that there was an entirely different way to think of the bass function, and what it meant. [...]"

http://www.jacopastorius.com/biography/life.asp

http://www.jacopastorius.com/default.asp


Also:

http://www.scroom.com/SCROOMtimes/issue1.3/jaco.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius


Don't know that I agree with this assertion, but I offer it ne'ertheless:

"Jaco removed the frets from his bass with a knife, thereby inventing the electric fretless bass. This instrument has been produced by bass enterprises ever since. "

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~g1cullen/Website/history.htm

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