Inspired by Bach : Jaco Pastorius
"Intet nytt under solen", Bach er og har vært inspirasjonskilde for svært mange skapende mennesker - uavhengig av kunstform og sjanger. Albert Schweitzer mente alt fører til Bach, i forståelsen at Bach var et vendepunkt som alt pekte frem mot før, og alt i ettertid pekte tilbake til.
Fra The original story by Peter Mengazio - Guitar World
"I practiced Donna Lee [his version of Charlie Parker's chop-busting bebop standard is on his eponymous first LP] and the Chromatic Fantasy for eight years before I would play them in front of anybody.
"When I first did the Chromatic Fantasy originally, I did not use an open string. It was so hard, but I did it because I was such a purist and people were always putting me down for being an 'electric bass player,' though I was so pure. I'm an acoustic musician.
- Jaco til Guitar World
There was something funny, too, about how we got with Jaco. A series of late-night phone calls from Florida to the Guitar World offices. An invitation to the famous electric bassist to fly to New York. Jaco hemming, hawing, hesitating, resisting. Ten minutes later a return call: "I'm on the next plane." The next day, GW staffers picked him up at a Soho jazz bar.
Jaco walked into Jonathan Postal's studio with his famous Fender Jazz bass slung on a strap. He led Victor (Bailey, som overtok jobben som bassist i Weather Report etter Jaco) into the room. I didn't expect to interview two of the most important bassists at once; such luck is rare. Jaco and Victor had met just that day, but they seemed to be longtime friends, teacher and student, based only on previous brief, backstage encounters.
- Fra The original story by Peter Mengazio - Guitar World
Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) var en amerikansk jazzmusiker og bassist, regnet som en av de mest innflytelsesrike el-bassistene i musikkhistorien. Han revolusjonerte bruken av fretless bass med sin syngende tone, avanserte harmonikk og rytmiske frihet. Som medlem av Weather Report og som soloartist kombinerte han jazz, funk og klassisk musikk, og hentet blant annet inspirasjon fra Bach. Jaco var kjent for både sitt grenseløse musikalske geni og et turbulent liv.
Jaco: "I don't play fast!"
Victor Bailey: "When you listen to a person whose objective is to play fast you go, 'Wow, That guy can really play fast.'"
Jaco: "I have never tried to play fast in my life."
Victor Bailey: "But when you listen to someone like a Jaco, and you're a musician, you hear the music. I think his objective was to learn the piece, not 'I'm gonna play this fast.'"
Glenn hater - Jaco elsker
I motsetning til Bachs største variasjonseverk, mislikte Gould det kromatiske klaververket som muligens tippet over i for romantisk føleri og i en utflytende struktur. Kromatisk fantasi & fuge trengte en annen frontkjemper for å løfte det frem til et moderne ikonisk verk - og her treffer det planken til den mest legendariske jazzbassisten Jaco Pastorius - som forvandler det til et av de tøffeste bass riffene - og der fugen etterhvert skulle dukket opp - eksploderer fantasien inn i et lekende habitat og pyroaktig lydlandskap - før fuglesangen fører over i en annen Bach-inspirert låt av Beatles - nemlig "Blackbird". Det er bare å la seg rive med!
Paul McCartney har flere ganger nevnt at Johann Sebastian Bach var en av hans inspirasjonskilder da han komponerte Blackbird. Spesielt har han trukket frem at gitarspillet i sangen ble inspirert av en av Bachs mest kjente komposisjoner: Boureé i e-moll for lutt (BWV 996). Dette stykket er kjent for sin vakre kontrapunktiske struktur og tekniske finesse, og det har vært populært blant gitarister i århundrer. McCartney har sagt at han og George Harrison ofte brukte klassisk musikk, inkludert Bach, som en inspirasjonskilde for å utforske harmonier og gitarteknikker i Beatles' musikk.
Blackbird
Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these sunken eyes and learn to seeAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird, flyBlackbird, flyInto the light of the dark black night
Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise
Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter are my best friends, and Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams, too. I mean, they will never lie to me. If I need some help they tell me right to my face. And that's what nobody understands. You see, I grew up on the tracks; to me, white and black – there's no difference, bro."
- Jaco
The reason I don't record enough is because I don't record enough, I'm an American Indian; I don't believe in photography or recording, I like to play everyday live!
- Jaco
Jaco: "I don't want to sell shit. I want to do what has to be done. I'm a musician. And musicians are the peacemakers.
You see, I rip off everything. I have no originals. Only animals and children can understand my music; I love women, children, music, I love everything that's going in the right direction, everything that flows... I just love music. I don't know what I'm doing!
- Jaco
Youtube er full av bassister som prøver seg, noen får det, andre ikke - noe starter tidlig
Jaco with the slimmed-down version of his big band live in Montreal. B. Mintzer-sax, R. Brecker-tpt, O. Molineaux-steel pans, P. Erskine-drums, D. Alias-perc
