Three Views Of A Secret
Jaco Pastorius
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Browse piano sheets by Jaco Pastorius on Zen Virtual Piano. Jaco Pastorius played electric bass, and his debut album, Jaco Pastorius, put those skills on display. His second solo studio album, Word of Mouth, from 1981, turned instead toward his ability to compose and arrange for a larger band. For that album he re-recorded "Three Views of a Secret", the seventh track on the album Night Passage. A track first placed on Night Passage and then reworked for his own second album may suggest that composing sat alongside bass playing in his work. Jaco Pastorius says that a child's record player let him hear only the melody, not the bass, so he played whatever he could hear, such as a sax or a piano part. He also says that nothing inspired him at all: he has always done it, ever since he first started playing the bass. His bass lines were virtuosic: he took Afro-Cuban rhythms, with Cachao Lopez among his inspirations, and set them beside R&B to produce funk lines in 16th notes, syncopated with ghost notes. Copying sax and piano melodies by ear may point to a link with the Afro-Cuban and R&B sources that shaped his bass lines. Jaco Pastorius started playing bass in night clubs just before he turned 16, and he kept at it until he was almost joining Weather Report. The work meant eight sets a night, going in at 9pm and leaving at 6:30 in the morning without days off. He names Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter as his best friends, with Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams, and says of them: "they will never lie to me." His mother did not want him to be a musician, yet he says she always pushed him toward being himself. Eight sets a night in night clubs, beside his joking with the crowd as a self-described Florida beach bum, may suggest that an audience was a constant presence in his playing life. Jaco Pastorius often introduced himself as John Francis Pastorius III and the greatest bass player in the world. A self-described Florida beach bum, he joked with the crowd and often went barefoot and shirtless. During a stay in Japan he shaved his head, painted his face black and threw his bass guitar into Hiroshima Bay, which alarmed his band members. DownBeat put him into its Hall of Fame in 1988, a year after he died, and a 2014 documentary film titled Jaco tells his story. A boast of being the greatest bass player in the world, beside a Hall of Fame election in 1988, may point to claims and honours sitting side by side.
Browse piano sheets by Jaco Pastorius on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jaco Pastorius played electric bass, and his debut album, Jaco Pastorius, put those skills on display. His second solo studio album, Word of Mouth, from 1981, turned instead toward his ability to compose and arrange for a larger band. For that album he re-recorded "Three Views of a Secret", the seventh track on the album Night Passage. A track first placed on Night Passage and then reworked for his own second album may suggest that composing sat alongside bass playing in his work.
Jaco Pastorius says that a child's record player let him hear only the melody, not the bass, so he played whatever he could hear, such as a sax or a piano part. He also says that nothing inspired him at all: he has always done it, ever since he first started playing the bass. His bass lines were virtuosic: he took Afro-Cuban rhythms, with Cachao Lopez among his inspirations, and set them beside R&B to produce funk lines in 16th notes, syncopated with ghost notes. Copying sax and piano melodies by ear may point to a link with the Afro-Cuban and R&B sources that shaped his bass lines.
Jaco Pastorius started playing bass in night clubs just before he turned 16, and he kept at it until he was almost joining Weather Report. The work meant eight sets a night, going in at 9pm and leaving at 6:30 in the morning without days off. He names Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter as his best friends, with Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams, and says of them: "they will never lie to me." His mother did not want him to be a musician, yet he says she always pushed him toward being himself. Eight sets a night in night clubs, beside his joking with the crowd as a self-described Florida beach bum, may suggest that an audience was a constant presence in his playing life.
Jaco Pastorius often introduced himself as John Francis Pastorius III and the greatest bass player in the world. A self-described Florida beach bum, he joked with the crowd and often went barefoot and shirtless. During a stay in Japan he shaved his head, painted his face black and threw his bass guitar into Hiroshima Bay, which alarmed his band members. DownBeat put him into its Hall of Fame in 1988, a year after he died, and a 2014 documentary film titled Jaco tells his story. A boast of being the greatest bass player in the world, beside a Hall of Fame election in 1988, may point to claims and honours sitting side by side.
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Jaco Pastorius played electric bass, and his debut album, Jaco Pastorius, showcased his skills on it.
Jaco Pastorius used his second solo studio album, Word of Mouth, from 1981, to show his ability to compose and arrange for a larger band.
In his bass lines Jaco Pastorius mixed R&B with Afro-Cuban rhythms, taking inspiration from Cachao Lopez among others, and made funk lines in 16th notes that were syncopated with ghost notes.
Jaco Pastorius started playing bass in night clubs just before he turned 16 and kept doing so until he was almost joining Weather Report.