The Essential Jaco Pastorius

(Bass Recorded Versions). Note-for-note transcriptions with tab of Jaco's brilliant bass work on 16 songs: Amerika * Birdland * Blackbird * The Chicken * Chromatic Fantasy * Come On, Come Over * Continuum * Donna Lee * Invitation * Liberty City * Opus Pocus * Portrait of Tracy * River People * Soul Intro * Teen Town * Word of Mouth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0634017675
• ISBN13: 9780634017674
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Basstastic!

If you like Jaco, and you like his playing, this is the book for you! I have listened to Jaco for several years now. This book really breaks down each song. I got this book for the two songs: Portrait of Tracy and Donna Lee. I really found this book to improve my playing. The songs are quite difficult (donna lee), but well worth it when they are polished out. The crowd loves them. Good bass solo material. Real good for your bass music library. A "must have"

Easy to understand and follow.

I'm a big Jaco fan and I am very happy with the songs and ,though there are a few more difficult songs,like Donna Lee, any Jaco fan will enjoy this book.If you dig Jaco,buy it.

Jaco - note for note!!

I grew up playing bass. When I first started, all I wanted to do was to be able to play like Jaco. This book lays out very clearly all of the notes Jaco played on these recordings and alows you to (slowly for me) start hammering out the different licks and tricks and grooves. I appreciate this book much more as an older and more mature bass player, because I can now actually pull off many of the songs with Jaco's technique very nicely. Playing Jaco's material with any kind of finesse is not easy. So what this book so amazingly offers is the notes, the hard work and practice to get it right is up to you.

I'll admit that I will NEVER be 1 tenth the talent Jaco was, but...

OK, first off, I'm a Fender Precision Bass player, and have been perfoming since 1971. So, needless to say, whatever Jaco played is/sounds brilliant, and I've rather dilligently tried to rip off/"play" some of his riffs - HA-ha...Anyway, MY favorite "Jaco Moment" is that ASTOUNDING (Cameron Crowe would probably say "incindiary") bass solo, right after the first verse of Ian Hunter's "All American Alien Boy." In just two lines, Jaco does things with his bass (a Fender Jazz Bass) that most "lead" guitarists I've heard/played with/for, just could NOT play with such finesse and speed. Ok, OK, WHY WASN'T THAT SOLO INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK?

concordia bass player

i absolutely love this book!!! if you are into analysis, and checking out what jaco actually played from the beginning to the end this is a good book. i'm am actually learning these peices in the book, and i would say that there is no other way better to learn how and why he does what he does, than actually going over and playing what he did, note for note.