It seems inevitable that no matter how brilliant an artist, the specter of an untimely death always hangs heavy over any and all accomplishments. Take Janis, Jimi, and Kurt, for example — each was an ...

If only every jazz artist had an advocate like label owner/project producer Bob Bobbing. Bass wunderkind Jaco Pastorius seemingly leapt into the jazz scene in 1976 with the quadruple punch of his ...

A transcript of the first meeting between Joe Zawinul, keyboardist/leader of the jazz fusion group Weather Report, and a young player. Young Man: My name is John Francis Pastorius III, and I’m the ...

Listen to most anything Jaco Pastorius recorded — his revelatory 1976 solo debut album, the entrancing music with Weather Report and his Word of Mouth orchestra, the stuff with Joni Mitchell — and you ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — After years of working on a documentary about the late jazz bass player Jaco Pastorius, Robert Trujillo felt he'd hit a wall. Although the Metallica bassist was driven to complete ...

“This is not an instructional video,” Trujillo tells Rolling Stone. “This is deeper. This is a story.” The film chronicles the ascent of the bass legend, who bridged boundaries between rock and jazz ...

Before he was recognized as a culture-changing, once-in-a-lifetime artist, before the comparisons to Picasso and Michael Jordan, before the world tours with Weather Report, before Miles Davis wrote a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X UPPER MERION>>When the late, legendary jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius is inducted into the ...

It's hard to believe that, despite being gone for 28 years, bassist/composer Jaco Pastorius remains not just an important figure in the world of jazz, but beyond its broadest purview as well. His ...