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Title: Jaco (First Printing) The Extraordinary and the Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, "The World's Greatest Bass Player"
Publisher: Backbeat Books, San Francisco, CA
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879303611
ISBN 13: 9780879303617
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The life story of the man who revolutionized the electric bass is an in-depth look at a tormented genius who achieved international fame and died tragically at a young age. First serial, Bass Player. IP.

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Certain innovative jazz musicians end up in thrall to their mystical music. Achieving the altered state playing such music, especially in front of an audience, becomes an obsession, often drugfueled and destructive. Saxophonist Charlie Parker was of that ilk, as was the revolutionary bass player Jaco Pastorius, whose immense talent was tragically subsumed by mental illness. Prolific music writer Milkowski, who knew Pastorius during his most aberrant and hopeless phase, chronicles Jaco's walk across the tightrope between genius and madness with respect and sorrow. Pastorius personified fusion, squeezing more music out of an electric bass than anyone believed possible with his long fingers and double-jointed thumbs. And he had a high-energy, high-impact stage style that galvanized his fans. Milkowski thoroughly chronicles Pastorius' rapid rise and triumphant stint with Weather Report, as well as his terrible decline and tragic, violent death just weeks shy of his thirty-sixth birthday in 1987. His well-illustrated book will preserve Pastorius' memory and remind people to listen to his incredibly funky punk jazz. Donna Seaman

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