Jaco Pastorius
USA
Born: 01 December 1951
Died: 21 September 1987
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Progressive Jazz, Big Band/Swing
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Jaco Pastorius was a meteor who blazed on to the scene in the 1970s, only to flame out tragically in the 1980s. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic imagination, Pastorius made his fretless electric bass leap out from the depths of the rhythm section into the front line with fluid machine-gun-like passages that demanded attention. He also sported a strutting, dancing, flamboyant performing style and posed a further triple-threat as a talented composer, arranger and producer. He and Stanley Clarke were the towering influences o...
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