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Jaco

Pastorius

  • Jaco developed intricate solos in the higher register.
  • Use of harmonics gave Jaco more creativity in melodies.
  • He is considered one of the most influential bass players of all time.

Καινοτομίες και επιρροές Μουσικών που έπαιζαν Μπάσο Jazz

Victor Wooten

Victor joins Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

3 Grammys

We Get Requests

Side 2. Track 1. 'You Look Good to Me'

Ray Brown brought You Look Good to me into a recording session.

The trio did a run-through and produced the version on the record.

... pretty incredible.

Peterson has recorded Brown's tune several times since then.

Amazing Grace

Born 1951,

Norristown,

Pennsylvania

  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Ray Brown - bass
  • Ed Thigpen - drums

Ray Brown

1988

One year after Jaco's death he becomes the first electric bassist to enter the Jazz Hall of Fame

(and one of only 4 bassists total)

Pastorius

Jazz Hall of Fame

Ray Brown meets Ella Fitzgeral while touring with Dizzy in Southern USA

Married 1947

Divorsed 1952

You Look Good to Me

live in Prague 1969

Born 1926,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The high school jazz orchestra needed a bassist.

Ray filled the vacancy... and the rest is history!

1951

1947

1926

1964

2008

1956

1943

1977

1922

Track 3: Teen Town

1996

Composer, bassist and drummer...

Jaco does it all!

Oscar Pettiford

& Dizzy Gillespie

lead a bop group.

1949

Oscar Pettiford

Wooten's first solo album, 'A Show of Hands', reinvents the electric bass sound with melodic lines and funky technique.

  • Pettiford played the bass as a solo instrument
  • fast bebop lines effortlessly
  • very melodic

Born 1964

Hampton, Virginia, U.S.

Youngest of 5 brothers.

All members of the

Wooten Brothers Band.

Pettiford broke his arm. It was impossible to play his bass but he could play cello with his arm in a sling.

Tuned in fourths like a bass, Pettiford began his first cello recordings in 1050.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

Boarn 1922,

Okmulgee, Oklahoma

  • Mixed African and Native American ancestry
  • Family of 10 children
  • double bassist, cellist, composer
  • Thumb plucks
  • Hammer-on
  • Tapping

Ray first met

at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert.

Brown played with Oscar's trio

from 1951-1966.

Pettiford considered the pioneer of the jazz cello.

Oscar Peterson

Jaco started out on drums but after injuring his wrist playing football he took up the electric bass.

2 years later Jaco took over the bass in his band, Las Olas Brass.

Perhaps Pettiford's most

well-known composition.

Wooten is named 'Bass Player of the Year' from Bass Player Magazine for the third year in a row!

1998

Victor Wooten

Track 3:

leading the jazz-rock/fusion

movement of the 1970s

and a huge commercial success...

Birdland

Listen for the harmonics on the bass and how Jaco attacks each note.

He's playing chords too.

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