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| 1. | Invitation
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| 2. | Amerika
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| 3. | Soul Intro/The Chicken
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| 4. | Continuum
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| 5. | Liberty City
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| 6. | Sophisticated Lady
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| 7. | Reza/Giant Steps/Reza (Reprise)
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| 8. | Fannie Mae
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| 9. | Eleven
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Jazz / Fusion; Post-Bop; Progressive Big Band
Recorded: 1982, Budokan (Tokyo), Yokohama Stadium (Yokohama), Festival Hall (Osaka)
DON ALIAS - percussion
RANDY BRECKER - trumpet
PETER ERSKINE - drums, tympani, gong
BOBBY MINTZER - tenor & soprano sax
OTHELLO MOLINEAUX - steel drum
Special guests:
JEAN "TOOTS" THIELEMANS - hamonica
ELMER BROWN & FORREST BUCHTEL - trumpet
JON FADDIS - trumpet (solo on #7)
RON TOOLEY - trumpet
WAYNE ANDRE - trombone
DAVID BARGERON - trombone, tuba
PETER GRAVES - bass, trombone, co-conductor
BILL REICHENBACH - bass trombone
MARIO CRUZ - tenor soprano sax, clarinet, alto flute
RANDY EMERICK - baritone sax, clarinet, alto flute
ALEX FOSTER - tenor, alto & soprano sax, clarinet, piccolo
PAUL McCANDUSS - tenor sax, oboe, english horn
PETER GORDON & BRAD WARNAAR - french horn
All arrangements by JACO PASTORIUS (except #1, arrangements by BOBBY MINTZER)
Electric bassist Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth big band made two recordings for Warner Bros. during its short life, of which is this is the superior one. The large ensemble (five trumpets including Randy Brecker, five reeds with solo space for Bobby Mintzer on tenor and soprano, four trombones, two French horns, Toots Thielemans on harmonica, drummer Peter Erskine, percussionist Don Alias, and Othello on steel drum) performs a variety of superior material. Although Pastorius takes his share of solo space, and the sound of a big band backing a bass soloist is rather unusual, he does not excessively dominate the music. Pastorius contributed some of the pieces (most notably "Liberty City"), is showcased on "Amerika," and also plays such tunes as "Invitation," "The Chicken," "Sophisticated Lady," "Giant Steps," and Gil Evans' "Eleven."
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Jaco Pastorius
Active Decades: '70s and '80s
Born: Dec 01, 1951 in Norristown, PA
Died: Sep 21, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Progressive Big Band, Fusion, Post-Bop
Jaco Pastorius was a meteor who blazed on to the scene in the 1970s, only to flame out tragically in the 1980s. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic imagination, Pastorius made his fretless electric bass leap out from the depths of the rhythm section into the front line with fluid machine-gun-like passages that demanded attention. He also sported a strutting, dancing, flamboyant performing style and posed a further triple-threat as a talented composer, arranger and producer. He and Stanley Clarke were the towering influences on their instrument in the 1970s.
Born in Pennsylvania, Pastorius grew up in Fort Lauderdale, where he played with visiting R&B and pop acts while still a teenager and built a reputation as a local legend. Everything started to come together for him quickly once he started playing with another rookie fusionmeister, Pat Metheny, around 1974. By 1976, he had been invited to join Weather Report, where he remained until 1981, gradually becoming a third lead voice along with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Outside Weather Report, he found himself in constant demand as a sessionman and producer, playing on Joni Mitchell, Blood Sweat and Tears, Paul Bley, Bireli Lagrene and Ira Sullivan albums -- and his first eponymous solo album for Epic in 1976 was hailed as a tour de force. From 1980 to 1984, he toured and recorded with his own band, the innovative Word of Mouth that fluctuated in size from a large combo to a big band.
Alas, Pastorius became overwhelmed by mental problems, exacerbated by drugs and alcohol in the mid-'80s, leading to several embarrassing public incidents (one was a violent crack-up on-stage at the Hollywood Bowl in mid-set at the 1984 Playboy Jazz Festival). Such episodes made him a pariah in the music business and toward the end of his life, he had become a street person, reportedly sighted in drug-infested inner-city hangouts. He died in 1987 from a physical beating sustained while trying to break into the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale. Almost totally forgotten at the time of his death, Pastorius was immediately canonized afterwards (Marcus Miller wrote a tune "Mr. Pastorius" in his honor) -- too late for him to have received therapy or help.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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