The jazz fusion that Weather Report and Jaco Pastorius symbolized has influenced countless contemporary artists. A great effort, that Jaco fans would be proud to add to their collection. It is there, where he forges his best ideals and plays with the kind of passion that pushes Pastorious' legacy to the next level. Brian Bromberg is a master bassist in his own right - but his star is brightest on the upright bass. It is honest and true to his unique spirit of playing. Jaco would have been proud of this tribute. "Slang" is a tribute to the pryrotechnique Jaco - using tapping and false harmonics to show off skill and bravado.
"Tears" looses steam early as it dives into the smooth jazz array, while "Teen Town" (A Jaco burner) is slowed down to a lite disco pace that zaps the energy right out of this tune. "Portrait of Tracy" has a nice string arrangement that gives the piece a beautiful classical touch. Here is where he really captures the spirit of Jaco's genius. Laying down fat tones that dance around the horns, he plays with a lot of depth and feeling that is not as present on his other basses. On these tracks, Brian's acoustic bass is gorgeous. The big band Jaco is well presented by lovely arrangements on "Continuum", "A Remark You Made", "Three Views of A Secret" and "The Chicken".
The soul-strutting Jaco is represented by "Come On, Come Over", with blasting horns and driving grooves.
Paying tribute to the master bassist, Bromberb manages to capture the three different sides to Jaco's bass vocabulary. Brian Bromberb neatly fell into the "Jaco inspired" catagory until he rediscovered his upright bass and set off to create his own unique style of playing in both the traditional jazz setting and the more popular smooth Jazz setting. He inspired a long list of followers who changed their axes to fretless and proceded to co-op his unique style of playing. His master of technique, groove and musical attitude is second to none. Jaco pastorius_chicken TablEdited by Jan Bjorklund You are welcome to request for tabs! Fingering and positions as suggested by TablEdit, please use common sense.Jaco Pastorious was the most innovative electric bassist to emerge from the productive 70's Fusion era.
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