Latest about Jaco Pastorius
“It was one of the few tunes that the band didn’t try to play live, but it’s definitive Jaco”: Discovering Jaco Pastorius and the making of Havona
Inside Jaco’s Weather Report audition and the recording of Heavy Weather's standout track
“The phone rings and it's Jaco Pastorius. He says, 'I’m in room 265, come up here and get your lesson!'” Marcus Miller on an encounter with the self-proclaimed ‘greatest bass player in the world’
Marcus Miller on what he learnt from Jaco Pastorius and why replacing him in Weather Report was “a beat down waiting to happen!”
Jeff Berlin: “Look at Jaco Pastorius: clearly a genius, but misunderstood”
Jazz bassist Jeff Berlin debunks a myth surrounding Jaco’s early years
Tony Levin: “D’Angelo’s Voodoo made me want to go back to school as a bassist”
The King Crimson bassist names four albums that shaped his sound
Watch Will Lee and Richard Bona cover Liberty City by Jaco Pastorius in this exclusive clip from the Beneath The Bassline documentary
Video Jaco Pastorius would have been 71 this week. Watch our exclusive clip as Will Lee, Richard Bona, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, Robert Trujillo, Nik West and Laurence Cottle remember the genius of Jaco
The late Victor Bailey on "kicking ass" with Madonna and embracing Jaco’s legacy in Weather Report
"If I’m playing the bassline to Like A Virgin I’m going to play the hell out of it! The same way as if I were playing Teen Town"
Watch Jaco Pastorius go from funk to fuzz in one of his most groundbreaking bass solos
The self-proclaimed (and undisputed) “greatest bass player in the world” went full tilt in this unmissable performance
Jaco Pastorius talks Weather Report, playing fast, and why the bass is "the number one instrument in the world" in his first Guitar World interview from 1983
In a freewheeling and candid chat, the late bass legend opens up to GW about improvising, his approach to the four-string and that legendary '62 Jazz Bass
Jimmy Haslip: “I know I don’t play the instrument correctly! I've just tried to find my own way of expressing myself“
He got lessons from Jaco Pastorius and toured with Allan Holdsworth – now Haslip continues to push the frontiers of bass guitar with album reissues, sessions and a playing style like no other
