Happy Birthday Jaco Pastorius!

INSTRUMENTAL HEAVYWEIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN 57 TODAY Once in a spell music finds new languages, fresh dialects drawn from the same Rosetta Stone that everyone thought well studied, known terrain. Jaco Pastorius was one of these rare individuals, opening up forever the possibilities of the electric bass guitar and eroding the calcification that occurs when any genre becomes set in its ways. A fearless innovator, he is perhaps the only jazz bassist known worldwide simply by his first name, and...

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