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The Prequel To Jaco's Solo Debut.
This new "music only" version of Portrait Of Jaco is now available in a single CD Digi-pak and includes several new bonus tracks!
Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S. -- Holiday Park Records announces the release of a single CD "music only" version of its critically acclaimed audio biography on legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius. Bob Bobbing's original labor of love production, Portrait of Jaco -The Early Years, will now come in a much leaner version leaving the original available as a special edition boxed-set. The original POJ boxed-set with its novelty "first ofs," 80-page full-color booklet and spoken word commentaries from family, friends, and musical luminaries will always remain a powerful testimony to Jaco's life and music.
Titled Jaco Pastorius - The Early Years Recordings this new "music only" CD is a light version of POJ but still manages to conjure up most of the magic of the parent boxed set. A jam packed 77:00 CD, The "Early Years Recordings" is comprised primarily of Bobbing's collection of stereo reel-to-reel tape recordings of a young Pastorius performing around South Florida. These live recordings include Jaco playing with the R&B organ trio "Woodchuck," the soul band "Tommy Strand & Upper Hand," "Wayne Cochran & C.C. Riders," "The Peter Graves Orchestra," with Ira Sullivan," "Pat Metheny," and also at Criteria Studio while recording his first original demos. But, this single CD version also brings several previously unheard "bonus tracks" that are appearing on this disc for the first time. The most amazing addition for Jaco fans is a newly discovered never-before-known Pastorius original titled "Ballye De Nina. This 13:00 live recording of Jaco playing in the Ira Sullivan Quintet (1973) has surprisingly good audio quality and features the musicians on extended solos. This incredible new find also introduces guitarist Joe Diorio, who was another big influence on Jaco during that time, and provides the final piece to the puzzle in revealing Jaco's early years story.
Bobbing, a teenage friend of Jaco's from their early years coming up together on the South Florida music scene, unknowingly captured a great deal of Jaco's inspired and creative formative years by recording Jaco on most all of his earliest musical adventures. His recordings include Jaco's earliest rhythm & blues bands and several of his very first original compositions. This exclusive early years collection represents a work of historical significance that provides a seamless account of Jaco's development from his very beginnings as a musician all the way up to the release of his revolutionary solo debut album. Bobbing explains, "These were Jaco's "Garden of Eden" years in Florida when he was healthy, happy, making music and enjoying life, and you can hear that positive attitude throughout these recordings."
This rare collection takes you all the way back to the beginning when Jaco was developing his sound, his chops, his style, and his writing skills... back to when he was brazenly ignoring all the rules and well on his way to re-defining the role of the electric bass.
Jaco Pastorius - The Early Years Recordings is now available for anyone who is interested in learning about Jaco's roots as a musician. In essence these essential early years recordings are the prequel to Jaco's self-titled solo debut on EPIC.
Jaco Pastorius - The Early Years Recordings is available at CDbaby.com.
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