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>Pg 48 Quote from Pat Metheny...
>.....If you just took Hejira and Heavy Weather and Bright Size Life and
>his first couple of records - just that little body of work right there
>sort of significantly changed the course of music in the last quarter of
>the 20th century, certainly in terms of the role of the bass, bass
>playing in general and without question the electric bass itself.
There have been precious few instrumental musicians that are as readily
identifiable and as pervasively influential as Jaco; in naming others very
quickly you're mentioning the likes of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Lester
Young, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny. To have
such a clear, strong voice ("voice" being an especially apt word since their
instrumental sound is as recognizable as a singing voice might be) and to say
such substantial things with it is so utterly rare.
The above quote from Metheny is absolutely right on, and as I ponder it over
and over in my mind like some kind of Zen koan, it just gets more and more
mind-blowing, but also more and more sad that Jaco's comet burned as bright
as it did but was here for only a minute.
-Fred
