Guitarist Pat Metheny once wrote that "Jaco Pastorius may well have been the last jazz musician of the 20th century to have made a major impact on the musical world at large. He simply played his ass off, in a way that was totally unprecedented on his instrument, or on any instrument for that matter."
Beginning with his solo debut in the mid-1970s, and through his work with Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Weather Report, and subsequently his Word of Mouth bands, Jaco single-handedly shattered the boundaries of the electric bass and redefined its role...
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