When the Bass’s God Took It All Over
When Jaco Pastorius dropped his self-titled debut in 1976 he didn’t simply arrive — he insisted on a new grammar for the electric bass. Coming out of the stew of early-’70s jazz-fusion, funk and South Florida’s multicultural soundscape, this record landed at a moment when jazz was stretching toward rock, pop and world music and needed a player who could be both a melodic lead and a rhythmic engine.
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