Jaco Pastorius, the late jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981, a player on multiple Joni Mitchell albums and more, was given the documentary treatment this year with Jaco, ...

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When I tell people, "I saw Jaco play," I'm sometimes held in the same kind of reverential wonder that I shower on those who saw John Coltrane. Such is the reverence for his prolific, genre-busting ...

On Dixie Highway, just north of Oakland Park Boulevard, sits the Jaco Pastorius mural. Chances are you’ve passed it a dozen times, probably without much thought. Next time, pay attention — you’re ...

I had been touring supper clubs, posh hotels and concert halls with Lou Rawls for three years, and now we had an engagement to do a television show in Miami. On the bill were Lou Rawls, Morey ...

There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

Jaco has been up for days with no sleep and little food, just flying on blow and hootch. He’s bleary-eyed and disheveled, wearing cutoff shorts and no shoes despite the winter cold. “Hey,” he shouts, ...

Jaco's Corner had been a gathering place in Olympia since 1920. Tim Dominick tdominick@thestate.com Jaco’s Corner bar and grill in Columbia, which had been operated by three generations of the Jaco ...

When Jaco Pastorius first met Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist and composer behind Weather Report, he had his introduction ready. “My name is John Francis Pastorius III,” he said, as Zawinul later ...