I went to a fretless through the inspiration of Jaco and it actually is not that hard to create good harmonics after a while, compared to a fretted. But playing them like Jaco is something that will never ever be done again. (Which is a good thing also I guess, since it proves how great and unique his work forever will be)
True. I mean that was mainly because of the fact that he spent every single day with that bass in his hands ever since he started playing it. Hell, he mastered it in a week! And was playing sets before learning how to read! Goes to show that Jaco was born for music. I really wish that I could've seen him live... Must've been an otherworldly experience to do so.
Ryan - his playing wasn't fuelled by drugs. Most of his great work was done before he ever took anything, but tragically his last few years were ruined by drink, drugs, & mental illness. Yes - Tracy was his first wife. One if the most creative, sensitive musicians this world has seen. What a tragedy he left us too soon.
@@Trepidity Yep. Drug abuse is strongly correlated with mental/emotional illness. And mental/emotional illness is sometimes associated with creativity (I suspect because if your experience of reality isn't the same as those healthy people around you, you are forced to question that perceived reality in ways healthy people are less likely too). It may then be likely that someone that has metal/emotional illness and is creative, may also abuse drugs. But I think it's a mistake to suppose that drug use implies creativity.
@@christopherrowley7506 I implied that genius is genius. drug abuse while may have been a catalyst but was not the source of his genius. If drug abuse had been a source of genius then the drug epidemic is created thousands of geniuses. Which of course is not true and makes up what I was saying. I may argue that intelligence is often accompanied with depression but I don't want to think about that when listening to jaco.
I don’t think you can just mash two very talented musicians together and go “they must be definitely great together!” Completely different styles and vibes
I'm surprised no one went nuts at 2:11 when Jaco haltingly breaks into the opening of "Portrait of Tracy." I guess not many members of the audience had Jaco's debut album, probably the greatest debut jazz album ever.
I was blessed to know this amazing man when I was at the University of Miami and got to sit in on some very late nite jam sessions at the Jazz School practice rooms with Jaco, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Gil Goldstein & other brilliant artists.. Saw Jaco for the last time a short time before he died when he played in Key West.. i pray he's resting in peace or in another extraordinary incarnation..
@@CaptainOffensive depending on the key. Point being, it doesn’t matter with Jaco. He’s a wizard. He can play this w/o natural harmonics, and YOU mr bass man would never be able to tell
5:08 it’s reassuring to see that even the master himself got hand cramps. This performance is so educational. I shall be closely studying it for the foreseeable future, for sure.
Same. Saw that top bass line video with Stephen and was like I know that fucking progression from somewhere.... Robert glasper? No.... SWV. So Damn beautiful
Wasn’t born yet but when I found out that he was living on the streets and beaten to death from a fight hit me hard tonight.I’m happy I was able to hear his music and his legacy😢
He fought about as much as a mouse can fight against a cat. That bully murdered him, and is now walking the streets. I've always hoped that somebody would find that murderers home and cut him up in his sleep.
This guy opened so many doors for the bass approach not only as solo but combined with the other instruments in less than 5 years... Before him great players put bass at a high groove level and solo level based on pentatonic or slap or trying to immitate guitare (great too) He completly walked with his bass on the voice, piano, sax, guitar and drum parts... and fit with them.. always creative and in the music. telling us.. "hey man this is how bass can be played, take this in your face and, do it on your own way from now" All the great bass contributors from all the world refer to him. this not a surprise... and he did that without "million of like button"... You can take ideas of his playing to develop your style. For example, Pino palladino got Jaco's chord bass line approach, you can ear some jaco's lick on his work with Paul Young...
True. I could make a whole list of all the bass players that are influenced by Jaco. Some examples are: Robert Trujillo (he had an encounter with Jaco and produced the documentary. Even owns Jaco's bass rn) Flea Victor Wooten Marcus Miller (was friends with John [Jaco's real name]) Geddy Lee Among others
I had the privilege and pleasure of playing with this amazing player in the Blue Note on Acoustic bass.....the subtlest, most tasteful, tactful bass player of all time! RIP Jaco and thank you for the memory.
Elias Rivera there’s is documentary on him that you can watch on the free version of Hulu. It has a lot of talk from people who new him personally and I highly recommend it
My God, Jaco is so young and beautiful here! This playing elevates the bass to art. The sophisticated harmonics, the crisp arpeggios, the improvising on a theme......just everything! What a waste of a life. I miss him a lot.
Without a doubt, one of the world's most unorthodox, but totally brilliant, bassists. You can hear in his playing, just how troubled he was, (Kurt Cobain was the same, although nowhere near Jaco's musical league);. His death was a very sad loss to to world of music. Both men died far too young,
This was from 1976 when Jaco joined WR, Portrait of Tracy was recently created as well. He was as clean as a whistle not even drinking, his mental problems surfaced years later when he starting abusing alcohol and drugs. He wasn't troubled here, just playing like a genious and at the peak of his career. He was getting high just by playing music at this time,. this is what M. Mikowski wrote on his book about him.
The Continuum lick at 4:06! My favorite lick from the whole Jaco discography! I love how he runs up that major pentatonic shape, and the resolution is so resonant around the music coming out at the time (Check out Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds!)
Christopher, I knew him personally, and I can tell you assuredly that in no way did he have a death wish, nor would he have EVER manipulated a way to become a legend other than through the mastery of his music. He DID have a premonition that he would not be on the earth too much longer than Christ. That's way different than wishing it so. I also spent some time with Ingrid, and she felt the biography had too many flaws in it.
There's nobody people can play like this before... And now hes gone, but he make history til people do it like this. This is a big history that he created. And will be never forgeted... TIMELESS..............
Watched so many videos of him, listen to his jams frequently and still am amazed at how clean he plays. It is SO hard to have correct pitch without frets. You can’t be off. He was so natural in his playing.
@@chrisnichols9187 on a fret less that doesn’t matter, you don’t have the frets to correct your pitch. You have to be exact where on the neck you fret the note. If you try a fret less you’ll see it’s actually much harder to play with exact pitch.
As a 24 year old I have the same exact thoughts. But then I have to remind myself that at 23 he had been doing this since he was 17. Not only that but he had kids and a wife. He started his life early.
if you dont get this, you'll never get the real beauty of renewing music, nor the beautiful deep groove of this out of the box musician. Listen to it once again :)
I was lucky enough to have played a mid 60s Jazz, and there is no denying it: it had the best tone. Something about the wood losing whatever residual moisture as it aged. Jaco's axe has that "pure" tone also, but a lot of that is also his touch, and his heart. We lost a good one.
I’ve seen other videos of PoT live but this was just raw beauty and art from an amazing man. It felt like chaos at some points but some of the most beautiful controlled chaos I’ve ever heard and it brought a tear to my eye when he finished. I’m only 20 years old so he was long gone by the time I was alive but there’s nothing I wouldn’t give to be blessed by the art of bass like he was.
I fell in love with the bass after hearing Stanley Clarke in Return To Forever, then Jaco came on the scene (he was already there on the DL) and blew everything I thought I knew about playing out of the window! There have been a million imitators since (me too) but no one quite like Mr. Pastorious. May his music never rest in peace.
@wlod nat implying that all music made with computers is shit is also a shit point though too. everything you said after "I meant that if..." is what you should have lead with. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
i know what he is doing is insanely hard to do. but I don’t feel moved by it. not this solo. this feels like musical drills. or an experiment. something to build musical ideas on.
@@adnwzhre Yeah, suppose I can't understand how somebody couldn't be moved. It's just a full body of music composed and played on one instrument. Do note that Jaco composed some of his songs on piano as he was also a fluent pianist. That's why chords are so important because they carry the melody, harmony, rhythm/beat.
"Like, OMG! This is such a rip off of Rain... SWV should sue!!!" HAHA! I can't believe people took that comment seriously. I guess sarcasm is a dead scene too...
Being first, makes him bad-ass! He was far ahead of the curve, when he introduced us to the true possibilities of the bass guitar! I picked my first one up, after hearing this on his debut solo album. I am still in awe of his artistry. And to the haters; get over it, he was truly one of the greats, without a doubt!
YEA! RIGHT ON BROTHERS IN BASS! a lot of the times wen i go listen to music on youtube, theres an argument about the musicians. bonham vs moon, page vs hendrix, etc everyone has their own style, so in a way, everyone is the best at wat they do. thats what makes music so enjoyable, to hear it with a different flare every time. we're not just robots or photocopied cutouts. we're people expressing ourselves
Did anyone noticed that Jaco is always moving the volume knob to shape the tail of the harmonics? I would have never guessed by the recording alone! Amazing.
1:32 to 2:11 is incredible. This entire clip is virtuosity defined, the zenith of a genius performing one of his most beautiful compositions. This music is pure expression, stunningly recognizable and enduringly beautiful.
It blows my mind how he can hit all of those harmonics so cleanly.
That's what happens when you put the time and effort into bass that he did: You become a god!
And on a fretless bass at that
Part of the trick is to play near the bridge.
LOL 3 years answer
I went to a fretless through the inspiration of Jaco and it actually is not that hard to create good harmonics after a while, compared to a fretted. But playing them like Jaco is something that will never ever be done again. (Which is a good thing also I guess, since it proves how great and unique his work forever will be)
True. I mean that was mainly because of the fact that he spent every single day with that bass in his hands ever since he started playing it. Hell, he mastered it in a week! And was playing sets before learning how to read! Goes to show that Jaco was born for music. I really wish that I could've seen him live... Must've been an otherworldly experience to do so.
The Weather Report was really good on this track
Funny yes. But they were an awesome band at the time. Everyone was top of their game.
They were awesome...😁
@CMP AB3 okay Lisa Simpson
killed it
I agree, they chilled and let Jaco work his magic on stage for all of us. A perfect accompaniment, in my opinion
Ryan - his playing wasn't fuelled by drugs. Most of his great work was done before he ever took anything, but tragically his last few years were ruined by drink, drugs, & mental illness.
Yes - Tracy was his first wife.
One if the most creative, sensitive musicians this world has seen. What a tragedy he left us too soon.
Mark Lewis Absolutely a tragedy.
If genius was fueled by drugs there would be millions lining the street.
Abject Trepidity high risk can mean high reward
@@Trepidity Yep. Drug abuse is strongly correlated with mental/emotional illness. And mental/emotional illness is sometimes associated with creativity (I suspect because if your experience of reality isn't the same as those healthy people around you, you are forced to question that perceived reality in ways healthy people are less likely too). It may then be likely that someone that has metal/emotional illness and is creative, may also abuse drugs. But I think it's a mistake to suppose that drug use implies creativity.
@@christopherrowley7506 I implied that genius is genius. drug abuse while may have been a catalyst but was not the source of his genius. If drug abuse had been a source of genius then the drug epidemic is created thousands of geniuses. Which of course is not true and makes up what I was saying. I may argue that intelligence is often accompanied with depression but I don't want to think about that when listening to jaco.
i don't even play bass and this makes me cry. Not many people who've ever been born could do something like Jaco pastorius did with a bass.
None will ever be born with the context or ability to take it as far as he did. This history can't be repeated.
😃😃😃😃😃😃
I fancy mark king of level 42. that bloke is to my mind a monster on the bass.
Yeah - made me cry too. 5 and a half minutes of my life I'm never going to get back again :(
@@DavyMcKay actually this comment made ME cry because it's so sad how poor your taste is 😭😂😭
I wish he and Hendrix could have played together. It would have been Wild. Both geniuses!
hendrix didnt keep up
Hendrix and pastorious are like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk for electric bass/guitar playing
@@hs5942 lol both steve and elon are hacks who didnt invent anything by themselves
I don’t think you can just mash two very talented musicians together and go “they must be definitely great together!” Completely different styles and vibes
@@paveantelic7876 word up brother
The whole audience is completely quiet until someone whistles, then jaco whips up the distortion and finishes the song.
I'm surprised no one went nuts at 2:11 when Jaco haltingly breaks into the opening of "Portrait of Tracy." I guess not many members of the audience had Jaco's debut album, probably the greatest debut jazz album ever.
@@skierpage In most countries people can enjoy an artist perfornance without screaming like in america.
@@marchamill most countries have unenthusiastic audiences then.
@Toxic Potato listen to the obnoxious prick explaining jazz audiences to me.
@Toxic Potato depends, alot of jazz is loud and rambunctious, especially if you listen to early jazz or jazz before the swing era you see wild crowds
I was blessed to know this amazing man when I was at the University of Miami and got to sit in on some very late nite jam sessions at the Jazz School practice rooms with Jaco, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Gil Goldstein & other brilliant artists..
Saw Jaco for the last time a short time before he died when he played in Key West..
i pray he's resting in peace or in another extraordinary incarnation..
damn
You lucky man
he finds the harmonic even when its fretless. thats amazing
That had never even crossed my mind! Totally dude.
He ripped them out so there would still be lines where they used to be
He doesn’t use the natural harmonics on the fret board. He made the harmonics w his right hand(picking hand) to make unnatural harmonics
@@bRokeAwms I'm bassist that able to play this song. And you totally wrong :) It's actually natural harmonic.
@@CaptainOffensive depending on the key. Point being, it doesn’t matter with Jaco. He’s a wizard. He can play this w/o natural harmonics, and YOU mr bass man would never be able to tell
Great musicians really aren't better than one another. They are just different and each contributes something new.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Who wouldn’t know this ??
Said very beautifully and articulately
5:08 it’s reassuring to see that even the master himself got hand cramps. This performance is so educational. I shall be closely studying it for the foreseeable future, for sure.
so what exactly is going on when he has the hand cramps ?????
Shout out to SWV, Chingy and the legendary Thundercat for bringing me this masterpiece of music in history 👏😭👏😭👏😭👏😭👏😭
Same. Saw that top bass line video with Stephen and was like I know that fucking progression from somewhere.... Robert glasper? No.... SWV. So Damn beautiful
I need to be in lighten how thundercat?
Thundercat finally brought me here with the breakdown
Fun fact, Swv producer got sued by using it.
Constantly, it's perpetual
Wasn’t born yet but when I found out that he was living on the streets and beaten to death from a fight hit me hard tonight.I’m happy I was able to hear his music and his legacy😢
He fought about as much as a mouse can fight against a cat. That bully murdered him, and is now walking the streets. I've always hoped that somebody would find that murderers home and cut him up in his sleep.
Is that seriously how he passed?? What the fuck…
This guy opened so many doors for the bass approach not only as solo but combined with the other instruments in less than 5 years...
Before him great players put bass at a high groove level and solo level based on pentatonic or slap or trying to immitate guitare (great too)
He completly walked with his bass on the voice, piano, sax, guitar and drum parts... and fit with them.. always creative and in the music.
telling us.. "hey man this is how bass can be played, take this in your face and, do it on your own way from now"
All the great bass contributors from all the world refer to him. this not a surprise... and he did that without "million of like button"...
You can take ideas of his playing to develop your style.
For example, Pino palladino got Jaco's chord bass line approach, you can ear some jaco's lick on his work with Paul Young...
True. I could make a whole list of all the bass players that are influenced by Jaco. Some examples are:
Robert Trujillo (he had an encounter with Jaco and produced the documentary. Even owns Jaco's bass rn)
Flea
Victor Wooten
Marcus Miller (was friends with John [Jaco's real name])
Geddy Lee
Among others
I had the privilege and pleasure of playing with this amazing player in the Blue Note on Acoustic bass.....the subtlest, most tasteful, tactful bass player of all time!
RIP Jaco and thank you for the memory.
tooter1able lucky!!! I wish I would've been able to see him in person. May I ask, how was he? In the meaning of as a person?
Elias Rivera there’s is documentary on him that you can watch on the free version of Hulu. It has a lot of talk from people who new him personally and I highly recommend it
My God, Jaco is so young and beautiful here! This playing elevates the bass to art. The sophisticated harmonics, the crisp arpeggios, the improvising on a theme......just everything! What a waste of a life. I miss him a lot.
It seems like the bruitist ending is a direct answer to the guy who whistled him badly few seconds before the actual ending.
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me watching this w my bass in my lap, looking like a whole entire fool
Without a doubt, one of the world's most unorthodox, but totally brilliant, bassists. You can hear in his playing, just how troubled he was, (Kurt Cobain was the same, although nowhere near Jaco's musical league);. His death was a very sad loss to to world of music. Both men died far too young,
I feel that man...
I wouldn't compare Jaco to Kurt Cobain but I get what you're trying to say
This was from 1976 when Jaco joined WR, Portrait of Tracy was recently created as well. He was as clean as a whistle not even drinking, his mental problems surfaced years later when he starting abusing alcohol and drugs. He wasn't troubled here, just playing like a genious and at the peak of his career. He was getting high just by playing music at this time,. this is what M. Mikowski wrote on his book about him.
The Continuum lick at 4:06! My favorite lick from the whole Jaco discography! I love how he runs up that major pentatonic shape, and the resolution is so resonant around the music coming out at the time (Check out Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds!)
Jaco is the only musician who could make me imagine I'm in an ice kingdom.
His family origins on his moms side are from the very north in Finland
I actually prefer this to the album version. Simply can't stop listening to it. Pure genius.
What I want to know is who tracy was, and how beautiful she had to be for this to be her portrait.
His first wife
Christopher, I knew him personally, and I can tell you assuredly that in no way did he have a death wish, nor would he have EVER manipulated a way to become a legend other than through the mastery of his music. He DID have a premonition that he would not be on the earth too much longer than Christ. That's way different than wishing it so. I also spent some time with Ingrid, and she felt the biography had too many flaws in it.
There's nobody people can play like this before... And now hes gone, but he make history til people do it like this.
This is a big history that he created.
And will be never forgeted...
TIMELESS..............
Watched so many videos of him, listen to his jams frequently and still am amazed at how clean he plays. It is SO hard to have correct pitch without frets. You can’t be off. He was so natural in his playing.
fretless isn’t actually as hard as it seems. especially playing with a lot of harmonics because you have to be right on anyway
Lines on the neck is still there even though it was a fretless he could tell where he was that at all times
@@chrisnichols9187 on a fret less that doesn’t matter, you don’t have the frets to correct your pitch. You have to be exact where on the neck you fret the note. If you try a fret less you’ll see it’s actually much harder to play with exact pitch.
He was something like 23 when he released this song..I feel like I will never do anything when I think about thay
As a 24 year old I have the same exact thoughts. But then I have to remind myself that at 23 he had been doing this since he was 17. Not only that but he had kids and a wife. He started his life early.
Only jazz music audiences would give a bass solo like this the respect it deserves.
if you dont get this, you'll never get the real beauty of renewing music, nor the beautiful deep groove of this out of the box musician. Listen to it once again :)
I was lucky enough to have played a mid 60s Jazz, and there is no denying it: it had the best tone. Something about the wood losing whatever residual moisture as it aged. Jaco's axe has that "pure" tone also, but a lot of that is also his touch, and his heart.
We lost a good one.
wow! Most beautiful base I ever heard.
Can't help to smile at this tune, so much heart and passion went into it.
Really wonder what kind of music jaco would be making now
What he does at 4:07 just makes this rendition nostalgic.
Continuum!
July 1976... Portrait of Tracy was released in September of that year, so Jaco pretty much was giving a preview of his album
I’ve seen other videos of PoT live but this was just raw beauty and art from an amazing man. It felt like chaos at some points but some of the most beautiful controlled chaos I’ve ever heard and it brought a tear to my eye when he finished. I’m only 20 years old so he was long gone by the time I was alive but there’s nothing I wouldn’t give to be blessed by the art of bass like he was.
So beautiful, who would ever think a bass could sound this way, Jaco was a Virtuoso, and a unique soulful musician, all with the Bass.
One of the greatest musicians that ever walked this eatrh!
I would have loved to see him improvise on the droney distorted bits at the end.
Definitely a brilliant bassist worthy of complete praise on earth! May The legacy of Jaco forever live!
Masterful, no matter which way it's sliced up, this is truly a masterful performance!
Wow... I'm just discovering this... mind blown.
I like how he was going to start the song at 1:23, but just thought, "Ah shit, I'll just do some more crazy techniques to amaze them."
This is a great clip of Jaco! He was on his way and in great shape. Really moving!
A true work of art. Beautiful
Jaco was an instrument and his guitars were his amp!!rip.
#OneOfAKind
Ricky Roma ewwww you use hashtags
What guitars
@@mcbill7352 bass guitars, obvi.
We can go round and round about who’s the best drummer, who is the best guitar player....But I think the bass is pretty much settled.
Agreed. But, it's not Jaco.
Duna Typhon OK, I’ll bite, who is it?
James Jamerson for completely different reasons love jaco tho
@@jackxavier3915 agreed. Jaco was the Picasso to Jamerson's van Gogh.
Solo work Jaco, funk/slap Victor Wooten, rock music John Entwistle
simply amazing...never heard something better than this one!
I fell in love with the bass after hearing Stanley Clarke in Return To Forever, then Jaco came on the scene (he was already there on the DL) and blew everything I thought I knew about playing out of the window! There have been a million imitators since (me too) but no one quite like Mr. Pastorious. May his music never rest in peace.
I wonder how SWV got a hold of this.
La Crista James is music producers are magical, mythical creatures.
@@steezharvey830 I think it was Brian Morgan who knew.
1:33 - 2:02 = The ostinato pattern of Jaco's 'Okonkole Y Trompa', but taken at breakneck tempo.
What an amazing performance from weather report!
So much sonority, my soul felt so pleased and relaxed yet intrigued
2:10 U R very welcome :)
1:20 watch the fingers....amazing....smh.
Genius, I've always loved his sensitive touch, his soul.
So sad he left us. RIP Jaco and thank you for your beautiful and inspiring artistry.
im not a jaco fan but let the truth be told,nobody can pull harmonics out of bass like this guy!!
+jdubbjazzbass Try NHØP.
dmbassa sums up both of my fav bass players
such a bendy thumb!
jacos awesome!!!
Double jointed, helps a bunch when anchoring on a string or the neck :D
カッコいい。惚れてまうやろー。
soooo beautiful
1:33-2:04
HYPNOTIC
I'm in a trance
I don't know what kind of person are the 148 that don't like the video... Aliens?
aliens actually must like it.
i don't think there's a name for something that dislikes this...
Guitarists
Stanley Clarke checking this out 148 x’s...
What beautiful quality.... thanks fopstra...
jaco my heroe...
it's amazing the things he could do with a bass. RIP Jaco...his style influences all of my music writing till this day
Only a troubled soul can understand the true meaning of this piece.
Caleb anyone with a high understanding of music can...
@@RiveBassCovers lol
@@eziauditore what's so funny?
147 people are tone deaf...
think before you type.....it's not that hard..even after your lobotomy....*****
+wlod nat I'm a Jaco fan, but your point us shit. Music shouldn't be about how technical it is to do, it's ultimately about the sound.
@wlod nat implying that all music made with computers is shit is also a shit point though too. everything you said after "I meant that if..." is what you should have lead with. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
this song still gives me goosebubmps....after all these years. Jaco revolutionized bass playing!
Never has a wordless ballad been able to move me like this one. Wish he were still around today.
Jaco has long fingers.
Yes he does
And long fingers have Jaco
@@LaGuerre19 that was wholesome
So did Hendrix.
Simply amazing! Definitely,the greatest bass player ever!
I have learnt more of jaco then any other bass player thank you Jaco
i know what he is doing is insanely hard to do. but I don’t feel moved by it. not this solo. this feels like musical drills. or an experiment. something to build musical ideas on.
Agreed,He doesn't let the music get in the way of his technique.
The studio recording is more musical. Try that one because it's the original.
I certainly feel moved
@@adnwzhre Yeah, suppose I can't understand how somebody couldn't be moved. It's just a full body of music composed and played on one instrument. Do note that Jaco composed some of his songs on piano as he was also a fluent pianist. That's why chords are so important because they carry the melody, harmony, rhythm/beat.
"Like, OMG! This is such a rip off of Rain... SWV should sue!!!"
HAHA! I can't believe people took that comment seriously.
I guess sarcasm is a dead scene too...
Yes! Thats the recording I've been bustin my ass to find! Thanks a lot man, you saved me some time of endless searching.
Being first, makes him bad-ass! He was far ahead of the curve, when he introduced us to the true possibilities of the bass guitar!
I picked my first one up, after hearing this on his debut solo album. I am still in awe of his artistry. And to the haters; get over it, he was truly one of the greats, without a doubt!
Truly amazing
I never get tired of hearing Jazz music, and Jaco Pastourious renedtion.
Bought a tear to my eye.
I love how he combined okonkole y trompa with portrait at 1:22. Rip Jaco
Happy belated birthday to you, you legend..... Shine on....
awesome personal perception and innovation in playing...haunting
Beautiful soul.
Best bass player I've ever seen/heard. Lyrical and technically over the top. Jaco we miss you!
Jaco is and will always be essential in my family and future generations of my family's musical upbringing.
133 dislikes?
I've been playing bass for 40 years.
This is a Master at work here!
HE IS A MONSTAH!!! I CRY EVERYTIME I HEAR THE WAY HE TRANSITIONED AWAY FROM US - HIS TRUE AND ADORING FANS.
He really puts his soul into is instrument, thats why jaco is so amazing
Been a while since I watched this masterpiece.
Beautiful song
each time a flawless execution of a master plan on a fretless bass
YEA! RIGHT ON BROTHERS IN BASS!
a lot of the times wen i go listen to music on youtube, theres an argument about the musicians. bonham vs moon, page vs hendrix, etc
everyone has their own style, so in a way, everyone is the best at wat they do. thats what makes music so enjoyable, to hear it with a different flare every time. we're not just robots or photocopied cutouts. we're people expressing ourselves
Fantastic !
Did anyone noticed that Jaco is always moving the volume knob to shape the tail of the harmonics? I would have never guessed by the recording alone! Amazing.
I still cry when I think about Jaco. I love him, forever.
One of a kind, and you wont see another specimen yet! His harmonics layered riffs are amazing!
I'm just glad to see that this video got 1.35 million views !
Plus its awesome how much they've changed over the years.
The best musician in the history of modern music.
I cant say I miss him, because I was never alive when he was, but I so wish he was still around. Happy birthday Jaco.
1:32 to 2:11 is incredible. This entire clip is virtuosity defined, the zenith of a genius performing one of his most beautiful compositions. This music is pure expression, stunningly recognizable and enduringly beautiful.