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During one of my first trips to Boulder, I met a guitar player by name Lenny Charles. Boulder is located at the foot of Rocky Mountaing and is a very nice and beautiful town with a great university.
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The company I worked for (Storage Technology) had the Head Office not far away from Boulder. I spent some time 1990 in a small town called Boulder in Colorado. I spent many hours practicing on my bass to songs like Donna Lee, Teen Town, Continium, Portrait of Tracy and others during my teens and even still today. His timing, sound, harmonics and groove is “one of a kind”. Since I play bass, I remember when he released his first solo album (1976), which was and still is a musical masterpiece! Jaco played the bass very innovative in a way that no one else before him ever done. I managed to get all seven CD’s where Jaco playing “Live in New York City” with various configurations (and all the rest of his albums). On each trip, I spent days in various record stores to find all recordings that Jaco Pastorius been on. I have spent extremely long time listening to Jaco Pastorius music, reading books and magazines about him, talking with people who played with him (when I was travelling with my work in the US during the 90´s). The Brothers Johnson worked together with Quincy Jones during the 70´s and 80´s (Louis Johnson on Bass and George Johnson on Guitar had a sofisticated funk style). The same night there was another great consert in Stockholm with a band called “The Brothers Johnson” who I will write about later.
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It was the first time I saw Jaco Pastorius perform live (and it was a wonderful memory). In 1981 Weather Report had a concert in Stockholm at “Hovet”. Pétur have a very open mind for different kind of music and that was very stimulating when we were together. At the bottom on this page is a video of Pétur to give you a flavour of his musicianship. Pétur “Island” Östlund is famous for his seriousness about music and he has teached and helped many of the great drummers and musicians to develop their musicanship. But when we played together (1979 – 1983), he called himself Nicko. Nicko is now using the name Nicci Notini Wallin since many years. Nickos real father is Bengt-Arne Wallin (a famous Swedish jazz trumpeter, arranger and composer). Nicko became positive influenced by Pétur´s drumming (like most of the great Swedish drummers), and he was just 12 – 13 years old when we started to play together in a band that later become the fusion group Aura (band members were Nicko Wallin, Peter Stedt, Björn Axelsson, Ulf Kronman and myself Torbjörn Fjeldgård Andersen). Pétur was married to Anja Notini (Swedish writer and artist), and by that he got a stepson named Nicko Wallin and a common child by the name of Basse (also a good musician). When I was a Kid we were neighbors in a place called Kummelnäs located just outside Stockholm. It was Pétur “Island” Östlund (a great jazz drummer in Sweden) from USA/Island who introduced me to the music of Jaco Pastorius. In 1982 he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression). Unfortunately his life tragically ended when he was only 35 years old (September 21, 1987). He was a fantastic bass player, multi instrumentalist, composer, arranger and a very sensitive human being. Jaco Pastorius is one of my absolute heroes in music. Jaco answers: “What for? Low E’s been good enough for the last 200 years, what are you trying to prove?” Question to Jaco Pastorius: “Would you ever consider playing a 5 string bass?” In John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”, Othello Molineaux plays the saxophone part by steel drum.īuster Brown’s “Fannie Mae” is a R&B song featuring Jaco’s vocals.“It ain’t braggin´ if you can back it up” “Soul Intro/The Chicken” is a funky performance.ĭuke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady” features Toots Thieleman’s soulful harmonica. Records.īig band jazz/fusion with arrangements like Gil Evans Orchestra. In 1983, a compilation album “Invitation”, which contains excerpts from “Twins I” and “Twins II”, was released worldwide by Warner Bros. In Japan, these live recordings were released as two live albums, “Twins I” and “Twins II” by Warner-Pioneer Corporation in 1982. Recorded in Nippon Budokan (Tokyo), Festival Hall (Osaka), and Yokohama Stadium. The original sources are the live recordings of “Aurex Jazz Festival” in Japan in September 1982. “Invitation” is a 1983 album by Jaco Pastorius, an American jazz bass player/composer/arranger known for his innovative playing of fretless electric bass, such as heavy use of harmonics and virtuoso bass shredding, and his Word of Mouth Big Band.