Pynchon and Music

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I'm particularly attracted to the collaborations of Jaco Pastorius and Joni Mitchell, like "Coyote" and other songs from "Hijera" and "Don Jaun's Reckless Daughter". 
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From: ruudsaurins at aol.com
> One of My Favorites....
>      ....of many, many references; in _Vineland_, Pynchon makes an isolated 
> reference to the electric bass player Jaco Pastorius, who came to fame with a 
> heralded solo album (remember those?), and then with the popular jazz band 
> Weather Report.  He had removed the frets from his bass (or was using one that 
> had the frets already removed; accounts vary), and achieved a legendary tone 
> from his instrument.  He was able to achieve a close fascimile to the sound of 
> an upright bass on his modified Fender Jazz bass, but was also able to play 
> "chops" that would be nearly impossible on an upright.  He literally redifined 
> the role of the instrument in modern music. 
>       He is now tragically deceased, but remains an icon to bass players 
> everywhere.  It would appear that Pynchon does not restrict his consumption of 
> jazz to classic be-boppers like Coltrane.   Jaco has lots of material out there, 
> with Weather Report as well as solo and other collaborative efforts.  A 
> reasonable exposure of his talent would be with the Weather Report album _Heavy 
> Weather_.
>                                                                       truly,
>                                                                       ruud
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: takoitov at hotmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:52 AM
> Subject: Pynchon and Music
> 
> 
> Another question to the P-listers in the know. I realise that many specific 
> references to American (British?) music of 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s etc. are 
> simply lost to me, because I am only aware of the most popular and pretty 
> obvious samples (I even didn't know about the lollypop song before reading GR). 
> So I would be grateful if you could advise me a "must music package" for his 
> novels (especially Vineland and GR) in terms of performers, groups, albums, 
> songs etc. I am not a complete ignoramus, (Sinatra I know :-) but I do realise 
> that I need to do some listening in my spare time to appreciate more Pynchon's 
> texts. Thanks in advance. 
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