Jaco Pastorius - Live In Montreal (DVD)

An introduction to Jaco Pastorius.

Advantages: One of the greatest bassists to ever walk the planet
Disadvantages: Jazz isn't for everyone

instantly identify as being a Jaco Pastorius track. Simply through the style of bass playing. Soft chords, harmonics and impossible stretches with the occasional burst of silly finger speed. Track nine is called ?Invitation? and is the title track from said album. This is another live track and is back to the style of what sounds like five musicians all playing solos at once! Again, a reason why people tend to love or hate Jazz. This track is ridiculously fast, I haven?t even considered trying to play it? ?Amerika? is the shortest song on this album at a humble 1 minute and 9 Seconds and is a rather patriotic sounding bass solo. Jaco takes some of the chords from Blackbird and sticks them in here too. The final song of the album is ?Fannie Mae? and is all out blues! This is the only track of the album to include vocals and, as ...

hukerjohn 18.06.2007 · Read full review
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Jaco at his finest

Advantages: Awe-inspiring jazz!
Disadvantages: It's not free

Jaco Pastorius is awesome. He is, to the bass guitar, what Hendrix and Page are to the electric guitar, Beethoven to the piano or John Coltrane to sax. He was born in December of 1951 in Norristown, Pennsylvania and was given the name John Francis Pastorius III. He got the nickname Jaco from his love of sports and basketball umpire Jocko Conlan then later changed the spelling to the French spelling Jaco after receiving a note from pianist Alex Darqui. His father was a drummer so Jaco decided to follow in his footsteps, however at the age of 15 he badly injured his wrist and so took up the double bass in his school band. After saving enough money to buy a bass he discovered it couldn't stand up to the humidity and discovered his bass in pieces on the floor. Replacing his bass would be too costly so he prised the frets from his Fender ...

hukerjohn 20.04.2006 (13.04.2007) · Read full review
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Living In Oblivion review

Advantages: Well acted, keeps you engaged throughout
Disadvantages: None

Living In Oblivion is a low budget independent film written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi and Dermot Mulroney. Sure, these aren't A-list stars, but that lends itself to the story. If it was a film about the making of a film and you had George Clooney and Brad Pitt pretending to be small time actors you wouldn't believe it. That's why it was better to use less well known actors, it pulls you more into the story. The film takes place during one day on set of a low budget movie, and documents all the problems that the director, Nick (Buscemi), and everyone else can encounter, from equipment malfunctioning to office politics to actors forgetting their lines. It's almost like a documentary, it is very realistic and gives you the complete story as to what it's like trying to get a film made. There are a few ...

Walter_Kovacs 30.01.2009 · Read full review
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