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Info on doc:

"It all started in 2006, when we, three fans of Jaco Pastorius, decided to self-produce a film to honor the memory of this immense musician, to showcase his approach to music, his creativity, his heritage, and make people discover the “human” imprint that he left within his formations.
Watching for the arrival in France of great musicians having rubbed shoulders with him, we managed to approach some of them, a little "with the nerve" it is true, and to interview Marcus Miller, Joe Zawinul, Peter Erskine, Dave Carpenter and Paco Seri.
The project progressed slowly, at the goodwill of the companies which lent us their equipment or their premises, until in 2008, the images were definitively lost during the move of one of these companies.
But in 2021, while searching his attic, Nico finds a dusty hard drive, which he thought was empty, and discovers that it contains all the lost images in digital format! The project could finally restart and this time we went to the end.
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We would like to point out that this film was made with no budget, no financial aid or no image purchase, all stock and concert images are taken from the internet and all rights reserved Musically, Nico, Chris, François."

Now for people who want to know what type of person Jaco was. I can answer that with this visual.

In the beginning of this biography I read, this writer he sees Jaco standing at the top of a waterfall and everyone is saying "No, don't do it don't do it!" And the writer shouts out "JACO!!" Because he thinks this is it - he's gone. He can't possibly make it.

He jumps and his lanky tall frame skims the water just missing the bottom. That's the type of person he was. That's why you are INTERESTED in him. Because you heard the stories or you heard the rumors of where he was or what he said to someone or encounter with a fan or musician.

That's why so many people gravitated toward him. Because like his music, he had this sense of reckless abandonment "I will do something unpredictable regardless of the consequence" Whether we approve of that or not, it doesn't matter. Because he inspired the world to consider the bass a lead instrument in the same respect as "Scott Lafaro" another tragic figure of the bass world who was masterful on acoustic upright bass with Bill Evans.

And there is no more perfect example than how he died. How he died, he didn't care if he put his life in danger, that's who he was. Now sadly his family had to be caught up in his gambling with the risk.

Here's a great insight into Jaco the stage craft. When he was on the chitlin circuit, he learned that you have to give the crowd something. So to slide across the floor, they used baby powder to make the intro to the stage.

This was something commonly used in Soul Revue acts of the sixties.
This is how you SLID across the stage to make an impression. And this is why he could get the command. It wasn't just his innovative talent, it was his flair for showmanship & understanding no one really just wants to stare at a bass player moving his hands on some strings.

If you want the crowd to truly interact with you, that's your challenge. What will you do?

Now for people who are new to Jaco, what made him unique as a musician, he was also a composer who could notate-sight read with the best of them. In fact, he could've been a instructor.

The other thing made him unique was "FLORIDA" Florida helped create this person to think differently. There was no fretless electric bass before Jaco. So how did he make his bass fretless? He ripped the frets off and filled in the spaces with epoxy glue.

This is just a little information to get you into the universe of Jaco.

Because like Mingus, Lafaro, he was a volatile figure who just didn't play the music, he lived it.

When you look at the stuff he did with Weather Report - Word of Mouth Orchestra, it's pretty amazing how it worked.

What a intro to this film

Joe Zawinul looks salty as f in this Joe : He said "My name is Jaco Pastorius I'm the greatest bassist in the world "

Cannonball

This is so effin well done, fam.

BTW if you love that, you can watch this too:

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This is well worth your time

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I'll be back tomorrow with a new drop. This is just something to hold you til then.

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IN; thank you for sharing this!

this is a really good documentary 😎

didn’t cover the murder 😳 but that was likely the point.

actually hyped to peep this

It is pretty solid. I suggest the other one I posted as well, that’s a different perspective and it goes with different interviews other than zawinul & Marcus Miller & Peter Erskine.

Which don’t get me wrong, great choices to film. all legends who all are the greatest in their musicianship. It’s just you want to hear from the other characters in music .