I’m working on a great book I recently got, A Portrait of Jaco. It’s a well-written and accurate collection of solos transcribed by Sean Malone that focuses on Jaco’s ability to improvise.
When I was starting to play music in Montreal Jaco was in everyone’s mind. Even if you didn’t like the music he was making, or it wasn’t your style (and half the musicians I was hanging around with were not into Weather Report), he was respected. I heard him with Pat Metheny on Bright Size Life, Joni Mitchell’s Heijira, and his solo record – the one with a closeup of him. All of these records became favorites – not to mention the Weather Report albums.
I had the great fortune to see him play a number of times with Weather Report. He was an incredibly dynamic personality on stage.
Today I found this interview and I thought I’d share it with you.
Here's a groovy tune that features some of my favorite players:
Herbie Hancock (piano), Pat Metheny (guitar),
Dave Holland (bass). Jack de Johnette (drums).
They are in Fm but the attached charts are
in a more guitar friendly key of Em.
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival announcement
A new year, a new concert announcement
What better way to kick off 2009 than with a TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival announcement? Gary Burton Quartet Revisited with Pat Metheny will be playing the Four Seasons Centre on Monday, June 29.
Vibraphonist Gary Burton’s legendary quartet of the 1970s was the first to introduce guitar great Pat Metheny to the world. Winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Metheny is the pre-eminent jazz guitarist who reinvented the traditional jazz guitar sound for a new generation of players. Burton, one of the progenitors of the jazz-fusion phenomenon, and Metheny will be joined by Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez.
