Solo Efforts
• Jaco Pastorius
• Word of Mouth
• Invitation (Live)
• Birthday Concert

with Weather Report
• Black Market
• Heavy Weather
• 8:30 (Live)
• Mr. Gone
• Night Passage
• The Jaco Years
• Live & Unreleased

with Joni Mitchell
•Hejira
•Don Juan's
Reckless Daughter
•Mingus
•Shadows & Light(Live)

with Pat Metheny

Guest Appearances
•Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun
•Ian Hunter - All
American Alien Boy
•Mike Stern - Upside Downside
•Jaco Pastorius - Rare Collection

Discography

Transcriptions

 Essential Jaco Recordings Latest Release

Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth
Portrait of Jaco...
the Early Years
the 2-Disc Anthology &
80 page booklet

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Jaco's notes for the track "John and Mary"


Jaco's stylized script
practice for the cover of "Word of Mouth"

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Release Date: December, 1981
Label: Warner Bros.

In 1981, while still with Weather Report, Jaco created the Word of Mouth Big Band, featuring Toots Thielemans on harmonica as well as an all-star cast made up of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Don Alias, and others.

Tracks:

  1. Crisis (Pastorius)   5:17
  2. 3 Views of a Secret (Pastorius)   6:05
  3. Liberty City (Pastorius)   11:57
  4. Chromatic Fantasy (Bach)   3:01
  5. Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney)   2:48
  6. Word of Mouth (Pastorius)   4:21
  7. John and Mary (Pastorius)   10:52

Musicians:
(note: the original album did not list the musicians. Later releases listed them by name, but not by instrument, as below)

Ray Kelley
Michael Brecker
Jack DeJohnette
Peter Erskine
Herbie Hancock
Hubert Laws
Jaco Pastorius
Bill Reichenbach
Tom Scott
Wayne Shorter
George Young
Howard Johnson
David Taylor
John Clark
Don Alias
Dave Bargeron
Roger Bobo
David Breinenthal
Denyse Buffum
Mike Butcher
Stuart Canin
Bruno Castellucci
Hank Cicalo
Jason Corsaro
Robert Cowart
Tim Devine
David Duke
Arni Egilsson
Bob Findley
Chuck Findley
Mike Gibbs
Jim Gilstrap
Bernie Grundman
Allan Harshman
Richard Hilton
Jerry Hudgins
William Hymanson
 John Lehman
Dennis Karmazyn
Edie Lehmann
Scott Litt
Charles Loper
Warren Luening
Myrna Matthews
Marti McCall
Lew McCreary
Othello Molineaux
Petsye Powell
Jim Pugh
Jeff Reynolds
Russell Schmitt
Ricky Schultz
Alfie Silas
Toots Thielemans
Zedric Turnbough
Gerald Vinci
Brad Warnaar
James M. Walker
David Weiss
Leroy Williams
Snooky Young
Robert Thomas, Jr.
Paul Horn-Muller
Peter Yianilos
Simon Levy
Tommy Johnson
Brian Risner
Jules Chaikin
Bruce Bransby
Vincent "Vincenzo" Oliveri
Deborah Sabusawa
Harvey Michael Schaps
Larry Warrilow
Peter Gordon
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