JACO “The World’s Greatest Bass Player.” Welcome to the 20th Anniversary Tribute o John Francis Pastorius III. Tonight is dedicated to celebrating one o the greatest musicians musicia ns that ever lived. Our goal is to inorm, entertain, and commune with you in matters regarding the lie, music, and legacy o a truly remarkable and complex man who touched so many people so deeply, and who’s known to all simply as “Jaco.” Most o you know a great deal about him already. For those who may be new to the Jaco ‘experience,’ John Francis Pastorius was a rare and wonderul spirit, brimming with lie and vitality, who traveled through this world in what to him was the noblest proession – as a musician. A true ‘American original,’ Jocko came o age in Florida during the 1970s, where he was raised on a blend o rock-and-roll, R&B, jazz, classical, island, and Latin music. He possessed unbelievable levels o natural energy and talent, both creative and technical; skills he shaped into a language that let his remarkable and beautiul inner voice take ight through the instrument. His ability to combine incredible precision o note and meter with a proound inner spirit allowed him to reach inside and touch the listener’s most intimate and vulnerable emotions. He was a visionary who looked to the past, an R&B player who looked to jazz, a jazzman who looked to rock-n-roll, an innovator who drew rom everywhere creating things that were completely new. Through a combination o hard work, ballsy ambition, and an expansive yet singular inner vision, he brought the electric bass guitar into musical adulthood. In the process, he gave birth to some o the most beautiul and compelling music that’s ever been played. But o course Jaco was so much more. What makes his music so inectious is also what made his lie so incredible – he lived it rom inside each new moment. He was all about exploring and extracting the maximum out o each moment o lie. The smile was one o Jaco’s trademarks. It was a natural outgrowth o what he did. Jaco’s music was about joy, spirit, and reedom; his lie was about adventure. Revered as a genius by some and a god by others, people all around the world were taken in by the passion and the naked honesty o his lie and music.
Biography: A Life of Music Born John Francis Pastorius III on December 1st 1951 in Norristown PA. Jaco, as he would be known, was the eldest o three boys o Jack and Stephanie Pastorius. Jack, a proessional jazz drummer/singer, was also Jaco’s frst musical inuence. Through his ather’s extensive record collection a young Jaco was exposed to all o the greats o the big band/swing era. On any given day the Pastorius household would be alive with the sounds o Sinatra, Bennet, Nat King Cole, or The Dorsey Brothers. Jaco also took ater his ather by taking up playing drums at an early age. Starting out playing with his ather’s sticks on a set o old bongos, Jaco J aco would eventually buy a ull set o drums with the money he earned rom delivering newspapers. With the seed planted, Jaco’s interest in music would steadily grow. In 1959 the Pastorius amily packed up and moved to Florida, settling down in the quaint neighborhood o Oakland Park. Born in Pennsylvania, Jaco was about to put Florida on the map o modern jazz globally. Over the ollowing years Jaco would be heavily inuenced by the wide variety o music styles that were unique to the South Florida area. With its multicultural demographics, a progressive music department at the University o Miami, miles o beach resorts, and its international cruise ship industry, the southern tip o Florida was constantly alive with the sounds o jazz, rock, R&B, country, reggae, Latin, and calypso. And it’s rom within this diverse musical environment that Jaco would develop his singular style. Over time, Jaco expanded his budding ideas into ull-edged works o complex orchestrations ultimately creating a rich body o work that would stand the test o time. During his youth Jaco would exhibit endless amounts o energy, practicing by day while gigging or venturing out into obscure areas o town to jam by night. Totally dedicated to music, Jaco quickly became known or a strong and healthy work ethic that he would maintain all the way up through his startling appearance onto the international music scene in 1976. However, by 1979 Jaco began experiencing unusual mood swings and displaying erratic behavior presumably triggered by the use o drugs and alcohol. Continuing over the years, the misguided notion that alcohol and drugs were responsible or Jaco’s behavior was only masking the much deeper psychological problems that would eventually lead to his untimely death at the young age o 35. But during the 1970s and ‘80s Jaco Pastorius brought an aura o rock & roll celebrity to an otherwise studious genre evoking the heyday o Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Along the way, with eortless speed, lyrical articulation, and his revolutionary retless and harmonic styling, Jaco single-handedly transormed the electric bass guitar, doing or it what Jimi Hendrix had done or the electric six-string a decade beore.
Biography
Originally a drummer Jaco switched to bass at the age o 16 developing his chops in a series o local R&B bands. He cut his teeth as a composer while on the road with Wayne Cochran & C.C Riders (1972), learning to read, write and arrange music rom the group’s musical director Charles Brent. Jaco later settled down in the house band at the Bachelors III in Ft. Lauderdale where, as a member o the Peter Graves Orchestra, he backed up national artists as the Supremes, Charo, the Temptations and Mel Torme’. In 1973 Jaco began playing with legendary multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan and jazz guitarist Joe Diorio. Considered his “jazz period,” this would be the most productive o Jaco’s early ormative years. Jaco had also developed a close relationship with the young up-and-coming guitar phenom Pat Metheny who was teaching at the University O Miami. All o these musical relationships would be signifcant to Jaco’s overall development. In March o 1974, ater a short stint on the road with Lou Rawls, a very confdent and determined Jaco returned home to begin recording quality demos o his own original music. Within a year Jaco was discovered by BS&T drummer Bobby Colomby and signed to Epic Records. Jaco skyrocketed to ame almost overnight with the release o his solo debut Jaco Pastorius (1976). But rather than go out on his own as leader Jaco decided to join the usion ensemble Weather Report headed by jazz veterans Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Shorter. With Jaco as the third key member o the band, Weather Report would go on to release six albums, win a Grammy, and was heralded as the premier usion/jazz group o the era. Jaco recorded with other major artists during the mid ‘70s and is well known or his groundbreaking perormances on Pat Metheny’s frst solo album “Bright Size Lie,” and or his lyrical retless work with singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell. Jaco was joined on his sel-titled debut in ‘76 b y some o music’s all time greats including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, David Sanborn, Sam & Dave, Lenny White, Hubert Laws, and members o the NY Philharmonic string section. Bringing orth totally new approaches, EPIC’s release o Jaco Pastorius totally revolutionized the way the bass was perceived rom that point on, thus becoming a milestone in the annals o modern music. Ater leaving Weather Weather Report in 1982, Jaco recorded Word o Mouth or or Warner Bros. and began touring a 20 piece all-star ensemble eaturing trumpeter Randy Brecker, steel drum virtuoso Othello Molineaux, and harmonica legend Toots Thielemans. By this time Jaco had already attained international acclaim and was widely considered the “World’s Greatest Bass Player.” But by the mid 1980’s, Jaco’s personal demons were competing with his music or control. One notable instance was his inamous onstage meltdown during the 1984 Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Things were beginning to go drastically wrong. Finally in July 1986 Jaco was orcibly admitted to New York City’s Bellevue Hospital to undergo psychological evaluation. It was conclusively determined that Jaco was suering rom Bipolar Disorder Type One, a mental illness characterized by drastic mood swings that range rom manic episodes o supreme confdence, to prolonged periods o depression. It appeared that Jaco was fnally going to receive the help he desperately needed. But ater only eight weeks o supervised treatment he was prematurely released and back on his own. Unable to stay on his medication due to the way it aected his playing, Jaco’s erratic behavior quickly resumed with devastating results. Within months a terribly misunderstood Pastorius was living in the street and being shunned by the same musicians and ans who had once showered him with acclaim. Tragically, Tragically, on September 21, 1987, Jaco would d ie rom injuries he received ater being severely beaten by a martial arts bouncer outside o an ater hours club in his hometown Ft. Lauderdale. Today, Today, Jaco’s spirit lives on, inspiring musicians everywhere to step out rom the shadows o artistic cliché, to reach one’s limits and push beyond them, to fnd a personal voice, and to strive or and to achieve creative excellence. FLEA, when asked about Jaco, wrote; “I love Jaco. I love everything about him, I eel the depth o his joy and pain in every note I have ever heard him play. Obviously he changed the ace o electric bass playing orever and a great poet would be needed to attempt to describe it, so I will just remain humbly awe stricken like everyone else.” Herbie Hancock is quoted as saying; “Jaco is without a doubt one o the greatest o all time, a genius… I don’t think anyone would dispute that.” But possibly STING summed it up best when he said. “For those o us who considered ourselves bass players in the 70’s. 70’s. Jaco Pastorius and the almost supernatural miracles he could wring rom the instrument in his hands were as revolutionary as Hendrix had been to guitarists a decade beore. He altered the musical landscape to such an extent that nothing was ever the same again. He was my riend, my teacher, and I miss him terribly.”
Frank Malfitano Malfitano Our Master o Ceremonies tonight is one o the most prolifc Jazz estival promoters in the country. Frank Malftano ounded Syracuse Jazz Fest Productions 25 years ago with the purpose o developing an audience or jazz in Central NY. During that time, the Jazz Fest produced more than 2,000 local, regional, and national events including 37 estivals and 50 jazz events in New York with seven indoor mini-estivals Actively involved or more then 30 years in the national and international jazz scene, Frank also created and hosted a popular weekly jazz radio program, “Just Jazz,” and two critically acclaimed series’ or cable, “Jazz In The Park” and “JazzBeat On Location.” He served as Executive Producer o the 1990 Jazz Times Magazine (International Jazz Industry) Convention in New Orleans, and was Associate Producer o the 1988 JT Convention in Los Angeles. From 2000-’06, Malftano headed the prestigious Detroit International Jazz Festival and served as the artistic director o the Detroit Music Hall Center or the Perorming Arts. It was at the 2006 Festival that Frank decided to bring the Jaco Pastorius Big Band to Detroit to see how Jaco’s big band music would be received. It went so well that Frank invited them to perorm at the 25th Anniversary o the Syracuse Jazz Festival, honoring Jaco Pastorius as the 2007 estival dedicatee. The 2007 Syracuse Festival would go on to break all previous attendance records and ended with Aretha Franklin perorming on the main stage with 20 thousand people strewn across the mountainside or one o the most beautiul estivals Syracuse has ever seen. So, or a grand fnale’ to an already great year where the Jaco Pastorius Big Band eaturing bassist Richard Bona also perormed at the Montreal Jazz Festival in July, July, we decided to invite Frank down to our neck o the woods to host Jaco’s 20th Anniversary celebration here at the Broward Center o Perorming Arts. We welcome his spirit, enthusiasm and dedication to the arts and couldn’t think o a more ftting host or tonight’s tribute to Jaco.
The Jaco J aco Pastorius Pastorius Big Band
Founded and conducted by Peter Graves, ormer trombonist and musical director o Jaco’s Word O Mouth Band, The Jaco Pastorius Big Band was a natural outgrowth o the Atlantean Dritwood Band that Peter ormed back in the early 70’s, in which Jaco perormed with prior to his solo album and whenever he was in town during the height o his career. Over the past ew years the JPBB has appeared at concert venues and estivals all around the world perorming Jaco’s original charts and eaturing some o today’s top jazz soloists and bass players. They are one o the primary orces carrying on Jaco’s musical legacy and have released two award-winning albums in his honor. With this kind o dedication Jaco’s music will never die.
SCHEDULE OF TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCES Featuring The Jaco Pastorius Big Band conducted by Peter Graves, with special guests; Peter Erskine - Randy Brecker Brecker - Bobby Mintzer - Dave Bargeron - Gerald Veasley Veasley Jimmy Haslip - Felix Pastorius - Mary Pastorius - Bobby Thomas Ira Sullivan - Alex Darqui - Dana Paul ___________________________________________
Soul Intro / The Chicken Elegant People
Composers: Jaco Pastorius & Alred Alred James Ellis - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius
Composer: Wayne Shorter - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius - Orchestration: Larry Warrilow
A Remark You Made Composer: Joe Zawinul Zawinul - Arranger: Dan Bonsanti Dania Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Bob Mintzer Mintzer Longing
Composer: Mary Pastorius
Teen Town Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Larry Warrilow - Re-Orchestration: Peter Peter Graves Barbary Coast Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Larry Warrilow Domingo Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius _______________
Intermission
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Havona Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Larry Warrilow Warrilow Continuum Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius - Orchestration: Orchestration: Larry Warrilow Warrilow Keio Plaza (Pan Art dedication) Composer: Robert Thomas, Jr. (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha
Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Dan Bonsanti
Jaco Time Composer: David David Bargeron - Arranger: David Bargeron Three Views Of A Secret Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius - Orchestration: Orchestration: Larry Warrilow Warrilow Liberty City
Composer: Jaco Pastorius - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius
Amazing Grace Fannie Mae
Composer: Traditional
Composers: Buster Brown, Morgan Robinson & Clarence Lewis Lewis - Arranger: Jaco Pastorius
~ Finish ~ JPBB PERSONNEL Conductor: Peter Graves - Alto Sax, Flute, Piccolo: Piccolo: Billy Ross - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute, Clarinet: Ed Calle Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Flute, Clarinet: Gary Keller Keller - Baritone Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet: Mike Brignola Trumpet, Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Jim Hacker Hacker - Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Jason Carder Trumpet, Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Ken Faulk - Trombone: Dana Teboe - Bass Trombone: John Kricker Kricker - Piano: Mike Levine Guitar: Lindsay Blair Blair - Bass: Je Carswell - Drums: Mark Grifth - Sound Engineer: Larry Warrilow
Tonights Featured Performers & Pastorius Alumni Randy Brecker Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound o Jazz, R&B and Rock or more than three decades. His trumpet and ugelhorn perormances have graced hundreds o albums. He has worked with a wide range o artists that include James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson, Parliament-Funkadelics, Frank Sinatra, Charles Mingus, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Brecker began his oray into jazz-rock by joining Blood, Sweat and Tears. Brecker then joined the Horace Silver Quintet. In 1968, Brecker recorded his frst album as a leader – Score – which also eatured his 19 year-old brother, Michael Brecker, on tenor saxophone. Later, Brecker teamed up with his brother, Barry Rogers, Billy Cobham, and John Abercrombie to orm the seminal-usion group – Dreams. The group recorded two adventurous and wildly acclaimed albums beore they disbanded in 1971. In 1972, Randy was back with Horace Silver, teaming up with Michael as the ront line in Horace’s quintet. In 1974, the brothers joined Billy Cobham’s group, Spectrum, with which they recorded several albums. By 1975, the brothers were ready to ront their own band. The Brecker brothers went on to record a total o six albums, and garner seven Grammy nominations between 1975 and 1981. Both Michael and Randy recorded and toured with Jaco’s Pastorius throughout his career, and Randy was a eatured soloist In The Word O Mouth Big Band.
Peter Erskine Peter Erskine has played the drums since the age o 4 and is known or his versatility and love or playing in dierent settings. He appears on over 500 albums and flm scores, and has won 2 Grammy Awards as well as an Honorary Doctorate. He has played with (among others) the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson big bands, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius Word o Mouth big band and small group, Steps Ahead, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Kenny Wheeler, The Brecker Brothers, The Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny & Gary Burton, John Scofeld, Bill Frisell, et al, and has appeared as a soloist with the London, Los Angeles, Frankurt Radio, Scottish Chamber, BBC Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras. Peter leads 2 groups ~ The Lounge Art Ensemble, and a piano trio with Alan Pasqua ~ and those recordings can be ound on the Fuzzy Music label. He is the author o several books, the latest being “Time Awareness or All Musicians”. Erskine is also an award-winning composer or the theatre, and teaches jazz drumming at the University o Southern Caliornia and the Royal Academy o Music.
photo by Tony Barbera / DW drums
A very dear riend o Jaco’s, Peter’s presence here tonight is very special as they played and recorded together in Weather Report and in the Word O Mouth band making some o the most incredible music ever perormed.
Bob Mintzer Arranger and saxophonist Bob Mintzer merges a tra ditional jazz approach with an all encompassing modernism that embraces lyricism, a strong sense o swing, and arrangements that take the listener on an unpredictable and vibrant journey. Besides leading his own New York-based big band since the early 1980s, Mintzer leads a jazz quartet, is a 15-year member o the Yellowjackets, and is active in music education. In addition to his busy schedule playing and teaching others, Mintzer still manages to fnd time to write saxophone quartets, symphony music, big band arrangements, music or the Yellowjackets, and etude books. Mintzer honed his skills playing and writing or Buddy Rich, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Art Blakey, Sam Jones, Jaco Pastorius, The GRP Big Band, Mike Manieri, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, and the New York Philharmonic. He also has done session work or James Taylor, Queen, Steve Winwood, Aretha Franklin, and countless others. Mintzer has been nominated or thirteen Grammy awards, both or his solo work and big band recordings, and his work with the Yellowjackets. Homage to Count Basie won the Grammy in the best large ensemble category in 2001. Bobby was one o Jaco’s ront line soloists in the Word O Mouth Band and will be eatured in that same capacity here tonight.
Featured Fea tured Bass Pl Players ayers Gerald Veasley Philadelphia-born Gerald Veasley began playing bass at age 12. Finding reuge in music ollowing the death o his ather, he decided to build a career embracing the therapeutic aspects o music. He studied all styles, and by the 1980s had become a much sought-ater sideman and session player across the musical spectrum. In ’ 86 he joined Grover Washington’s band and in ’88 teamed up with one o his heroes, Joe Zawinul, with whom he toured or seven years in the Zawinul Syndicate. Veasley launched a prolifc solo career in the ‘90s, releasing albums in ’92 (Look Ahead), ’96 (Signs), ’97 (Soul Control), ’99 (Love Letters), ’01 (On the Fast Track), ‘03 (Velvet), and a live album in ‘05 (Gerald Veasley At The Jazz Base!). In addition to a ull touring schedule with his own band, Veasley makes time to lecture and teach at the university level and at Bass Boot Camp, which he ounded in 1992. Gerald Veasley has cited Jaco as one o his major inuences on electric bass and it shows.
Felix Pastorius Jaco Pastorius’ youngest son, a twin, Felix Xavier Pastorius, born 1982 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida took piano lessons rom “uncle Matty” (Matty Bonelli Sr.) Sr.) 1989 - 1996. At age 14 he decided to play bass. Two years later, later, at 16, he was perorming throughout throughout south Florida with Bobby Thomas Jr. (Weather (Weather Report, Monty Alexander) in trios and duos, playing melody on his 7 string bass to an impromptu bass loop, with Bobby Thomas on percussion. percussion. At age 19, ater meeting Je Cofn at one o the Victor Wooten Bass Camps, Felix went on the road with Je and the Mu’tets, and has continued touring with him or the past 6 years whenever Je is not on the road with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones. Flecktones. Earlier this year Felix fnished the soon-to-be-released Mu’tets CD “MUTOPIA” with guest perormance by Victor Wooten Wooten and Bela Fleck. Locally, Locally, you can also hear Felix rocking it in the Bendy/Pastorius Group with his twin brother Julius on drums, as well as with his own jazz ensemble Counterpoint Jazz Collective. Felix’s website is www. elixpastorius.com
Jimmy Haslip In 1978, Jimmy Haslip teamed up with guitarist Robben Ford and keyboard player Russell Ferrante to orm the legendary Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets. In 1980, the critically acclaimed group recorded its debut album, which was ollowed by 19 additional titles. The Yellowjackets has received 13 Grammy nominations, and won two Grammy awards. Over the last 20 years, Haslip also has produced a number o recordings or artists that include Michael Franks, Take 6, Gino Vannelli, Brenda Russell, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin, Toots Thielemans, Chaka Khan, Rita C oolidge, Flora Purim and many others. Haslip has produced and released two solo albums, and is now coproducing his third with Joe Vannelli. He is a member o the National Academy o Recording Arts & Sciences and o the International Association o Jazz Educators. He’s taught numerous master classes, clinics, and music workshops in residency at music academies, institutes and colleges all over the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. Haslip also writes a quarterly educational column or Bassics magazine. Jimmy studied with Jaco in the mid-seventies and credits him as a major inuence. We would like to thank Jimmy or his continual support over the years in honoring Jaco’s memory.
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Additional Featured Performances Robert Thomas Jr. Robert “Bobby” Thomas Jr. creates the most unique approach to percussive instruments in music today by combining traditional playing styles o many lands and instruments, both ancient and contemporary. Known worldwide or his work with Weather Report, Thomas converses melodically, harmonically, and rhythmically by incorporating the use o cymbals, cowbells, and skins in a systematic concept. Thomas, a two-time Grammy nominee and native Floridian, has shared the bandstand with David Sanborn, Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Monty Alexander, and his riend Jaco Pastorius. In the late 1990s, Felix Pastorius, son o the late Jaco Pastorius, briey joined Thomas as part o the group Full Moon Project. Most recently, Thomas released the album “Outside the Grid,” which he recorded along with Danny Walsh, Milton Mustaa, and Tony Hayes. Known as the sole innovator o Bebop and reestyle-hand drumming, Thomas is also an avid collector o bizarre string and wind instruments. For tonight’s perormance Bobby will be playing an unusual pan instrument called Pan Art.
Ira Sullivan Ira Sullivan is an elder statesman o mainstream jazz having come to New York rom Chicago, in 1956, to join Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Celebrated internationally as a brilliant improviser, Mr. Sullivan is unique in that he is the only person in jazz to play trumpet and saxophones at the highest level. Except or his case, this is virtually unheard o. He played trumpet with C harlie Parker and tenor sax with Roy Eldridge. His own recordings have consistently met with critical acclaim, and his collaboration trumpeter Red Rodney, in the 1980s was celebrated worldwide. He has inuenced and helped to nurture several generations o jazz musicians, working in Chicago with an eighteen-year-old Herbie Hancock and mentoring electric bass innovator Jaco Pastorius. Ater many decades o great jazz music it is still astonishing to see him perorm on a barrage o instruments with his characteristic passion and creativity. creativity.
Dana Paul Dana Paul’s outstanding jazz-vocal perormances earned him the title o “Best Jazz Artist” or 2002 given by the Florida Music Awards. Paul was the eatured vocalist or Peter Graves’ legendary big band, Atlantean Dritwood Band, which was part o the annual S anibel Jazz on the Green estival. There, he perormed with Chick Correa, Chuck Mangione, Toots Thielman, Ira Sullivan, Bob James, Bobby Caldwell, the Yellowjackets, as well as Tom Scott. Most recently, Paul released an independent jazz compact disc recorded at Churchill’s, a popular restaurant and lounge in Miami, FL. Featured on the recording are pianist Mike Orta, bassist Nickie Orta, and drummer Mike Harvey, along with guest perormances by pianist Mike Levine and bassist Raael Valencia. Today Today,, Paul continues to collaborate with Graves by perorming with the Jaco Pastorius Big Band, as well as other Florida musicians, perorming at local venues throughout South Florida.
Alex Darqui In 1973 pianist Alex Darqui shared adjacent apartments with Jaco Pastorius above a Laundromat in Hollywood during which time Alex witnessed rom ground zero the creative explosion that took place within the walls o that building as Jaco completed or at least began nearly every musical composition he would ever write. Jaco, Alex, and drummer Bobby Economou joined great jazz multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan in late 1973 or a limited engagement at the legendary Lion’s Share gig. It was a combustible combination o musicians being ueled primarily by Jaco’s growing orce. The word traveled ast. Famous musicians and jazz students rom the University o Miami all came to see or themselves this groundbreaking group on the cutting edge o what was becoming the usion movement. Jaco subsequently brought Alex, and drummer Economou with him to New York to record his debut solo album. Jaco has publicly credited Alex with being one o his biggest musical inuences. Alex continues to perorm and teach ull time.
Fender Musical Instruments presents “A Lifetime Achievement Award” to Jaco Pastorius for his pioneering contributions to music. To do the honors tonight, representing Fender, are Del Breckenfeld and Tony Franklin.
Del De l Breckenfeld Del Breckeneld, Director o Entertainment Marketing at FMIC. A graduate o North Eastern University, with a major in music, Del began his ormal music career in the 1980’s as bassist and songwriter or the band Gambler, recording or Capitol / EMI. Ater honing his skills in Marketing and Artist Relations with guitar companies Dean and Washburn, Del joined Fender® in 1995. As Director o Entertainment Marketing his responsibilities include movie and TV product placement and National promotions throughout the Entertainment Industry. In 2007, Del was awarded the Chairman o the Board’s award or embodying the Fender Spirit o Rock-n-Roll®. Amongst Del’s many other achievements, he was responsible or launching the Jaco Pastorius Tribute Tribute Jazz Bass®.
Tony Franklin Perorming on stage since the age o 5, Tony Franklin frst made his mark as bassist in the 80’s supergroup the Firm with guitar legend Jimmy Page. Franklin’s signature retless growl was a distinctive and instantly recognizable element o the band’s frst hit, “Radioactive.” Ater two hit albums with the Firm, Franklin perormed with Blue Murder (John Sykes, Carmine Appice), David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Whitesnake, Donna Lewis, Pat Travers and many others. An in-demand session bass ace, Franklin has released two solo albums, Brave New Tomorrow and Wonderland. Wonderland. Tony now juggles his music career between his artist relations duties or Fender Musical Instruments and his role as a clinician or Fender and SWR. Tony’s Tony’s biggest musical inuence… Jaco Pastorius.
Dave Dave & Gussie Bargeron Dave Bargeron is a versatile low-brass jazz artist hailing rom Athol, Massachusetts. He won his frst lead trombone job playing with Clark Terry’s Big Band and rom 1968-1970 played Bass Trombone and Tuba with Doc Severinsen’s Band. In 1970, he joined “Blood, Sweat and Tears” and went on to record eleven albums. Dave joined the Gil Evans Orchestra in 1972 and played with them long ater the beloved Gil died. Ater leaving Blood, Sweat & Tears, Dave became both a sought-ater recording musician in New York City and a well-known jazz artist. He records with many diverse artists playing musical styles that range rom pop albums with Paul Simon, Mick Jagger, James Taylor and Eric Clapton to jazz albums with Gerry Mulligan, Dave Sanborn and Pat Metheny. Dave currently records and tours internationally with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band rom Switzerland, the George Russell Living Time Orchestra, and is also a charter member o Howard Johnson’s “Gravity,” the 6-tuba group that has been together since 1968. Dave frst played with Jaco in Blood Sweat & Tears, and was a long-time member o Jaco’s Word O Mouth Band Dave’s daughter Gussie is a 16 year-old junior in High School who is also a student o Trudy Kane, Principal Flutist rom the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Tonight’s tribute to Jaco perormance will mark Dave and Gussie’s frst ofcial “gig” together. This trombone/ute duet is o an original song composed by Dave Bargeron titled Jaco Time. This composition was written inspired by all o the beautiul melodies that have been and continue to run through David’s head ater spending so much time with Jaco over the years. A ftting tribute or an occasion such as this. It’s a pleasure to have Dave and his daughter Gussie here with us tonight. Jaco would appreciate it.
Leo Fender and Jaco Pastorius: The Summit of Electric Bass
F
ile it under “happy coincidences” that late 1951 saw the birth o two remarkable electric bass guitar phenomena: the instrument itsel and the man who became perhaps its greatest practitioner. Fall o that pivotal year saw the very frst production models o an unusual new instrument-the solid-body electric bass guitar-rom Southern Caliornia inventor and guitar maker Leo Fender. Mere weeks later, on Dec. 1 o that year, John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III was born in Norristown, Pa. Fender’s new instrument was destined to transorm the world o popular music. Pastorius was destined to one day master the instrument as no one else beore and perhaps no one since. Leo Fender, or his modest part, can truly be considered one o the athers o rock ‘n’ roll, although he himsel preerred the western swing music so popular in postwar Southern Caliornia. The ounding o the company bearing his name predated rock ‘n’ roll by a ull decade, but he was the right man at the right time to usher popular music rom the waning acoustic big band era o the late 1940s into the new, new, excitingly visceral electric era o the 1950s and beyond with his sleekly revolutionary electric guitars and loud, rugged r ugged amplifers. The electric bass guitar more than ulflled its intended supporting role in popular music, o course, but the 1960s and ‘70s saw new generations o bassists come along who had a new and entirely dierent die rent role in mind never imagined by the instrument’s creator; a sonically adventurous, musically dazzling re-imagining o the instrument’s possibilities that reached its summit in the supremely virtuosic hands and visionary musical mind o Jaco Pastorius. It is simply impossible to overestimate the monumental and worldwide eect he had on the very character o the bass guitar; an instrument whose role he expanded seemingly singlehandedly in what amounted to a our-string quantum leap. With heart, soul, mind and hands, Pastorius, during his all-too short stay among us, took the electric bass to a bold and beautiul new place. In his honor, as a tribute to Jaco’s enduring legacy, Fender has created an exact replica o his signature 1962 Fender jazz bass. We are also proud to present Jaco Pastorius with a Lietime Achievement Award or his pioneering contributions to music. Leo Fender. Jaco Pastorius. Two explorers. Two revolutionaries. Two visionaries. Their legacies continue on, connected or all ages to come in the instrument so near and dear to both. b oth.
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Tonight’s Event Sponsors BEV OATES SCOTT GOODMAN JOHN HILL ED FORBES KARL MANGIALARDI HOWARD ENDERS
Corporate Sponsors FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WARNER’S / RHINO RECORDS HAL LEONARD BOOKS ROTOSOUND STRINGS SONY/BMG HARTKE
Credits & Special Thanks Producers: Bob Bobbing - Peter Graves - John Pastorius Assistants to the producer: Elton Bradman - Bink Burns Program Design & Layout: Bob Bobbing - Robin Gilbertson SCP Graphics Writers: Bob Bobbing - Peter Weiss Cover Art: Art: Courtesy o Bruni Special thanks to Tracy Lee or personally taking it on hersel to provide transportation or all o Jaco’s alumni and eatured perormers. Special thanks to; Karla Dameon – Gary Mayone – Sara Waters – Trish Bobbing - Sandy Messinger – Mark Gray - Lynn Oreal – and Travis Cook I would like to acknowledge Mark Nerenhausen and all o the sta at the Broward Center who really helped make this tribute as special as it deserved to be. They were truly a godsend or this event. We would like to thank all o our sponsors or their generous support. It was much needed and most welcomed. Also we would like to thank all o the wonderul musicians who went out o their way to help make this joyous event possible. Collectively, the sponsors, the perormers, the ans, the amily, the Broward Center, everybody made this tribute celebration to Jaco a night to remember, thank you.
