Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an ...

“My name is Jaco Pastorius and I’m the greatest bass player in the world.” This was the way Jaco introduced himself to Joe Zawinul, Weather Report founder and übermensch. Zawinul was abrupt and ...

Bass players worldwide from the diverse realms of progressive jazz, funk, fusion, soul and pop music have been influenced -- inescapably and profoundly -- by the technique Jaco Pastorius innovated in ...

“Jaco” Original Soundtrack (Columbia/Legacy). However well it may function as the soundtrack to the documentary movie about the late, doomed 12,000-fingered electric bass showoff (he died from a ...