Jaco (album)

1976 live album by Jaco Pastorius/Pat Metheny/Bruce Ditmas/Paul Bley

Jaco

Live album by

Jaco Pastorius/Pat Metheny/Bruce Ditmas/Paul Bley

Released| 1976
Recorded| June 16, 1974
Venue| 29 Greene Street, New York City 10013
Studio| Blue Rock Studio
Genre| Jazz
Length| 36:37
Label| Improvising Artists
Producer| Paul Bley
Pat Metheny chronology
|  | Jaco
(1976)  | Bright Size Life
(1976)

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Jaco Pastorius chronology
|  | Jaco
(1974)  | Jaco Pastorius
(1976)

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Paul Bley chronology
| Paul Bley/NHØP
(1973)  | Jaco
(1974)  | Alone, Again
(1974)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic|  [1]

Jaco is the unofficial later title of a 1974 LP album on Paul Bley's Improvising Artists Label. It is notable for being the first professional recording showcasing the talents of Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. The two had become friends in Miami the year before. Their collaboration continued on Metheny's debut Bright Size Life with Bob Moses, recorded in December 1975.[2]

## Track listing

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Side oneNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Vashkar"| Carla Bley| 9:55
2.| "Poconos"| Paul Bley| 1:00
3.| "Donkey"| Carla Bley| 6:28

Side twoNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Vampira"| Paul Bley| 7:15
2.| "Overtoned"| Carla Bley| 1:04
3.| "Jaco"| Paul Bley| 3:45
4.| "Batterie"| Carla Bley| 5:12
5.| "King Korn"| Carla Bley| 0:29
6.| "Blood"| Annette Peacock| 1:28

## Personnel

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* Pat Metheny – guitar
* Jaco Pastorius – bass guitar
* Paul Bley – electric piano
* Bruce Ditmas – drums

## References

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1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r164647
2. ^ ecmrecords.com. "album entry" Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

* v
* t
* e

Jaco Pastorius

As leader|

* Jaco
* Jaco Pastorius
* Word of Mouth
* Invitation
* Holiday for Pans
* The Birthday Concert
* Trio of Doom

With Weather Report|

* Black Market
* Heavy Weather
* Mr. Gone
* 8:30
* Night Passage
* Weather Report
* Live and Unreleased
* Forecast: Tomorrow
* The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978–1981

with Herbie Hancock|

* Sunlight
* Mr. Hands

with Joni Mitchell|

* Hejira
* Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
* Mingus
* Shadow and Light

With others|

* Cliff Hanger
* Down by Law
* All American Alien Boy
* Land of the Midnight Sun
* Bright Size Life
* I'm Fine, How Are You?
* Upside Downside
* Ira Sullivan

Related|

* Discography
* Jaco (film)

* v
* t
* e

Paul Bley

Studio albums|

* Introducing Paul Bley
* Paul Bley
* Solemn Meditation
* Footloose!
* Barrage
* Touching
* Closer
* Ramblin'
* Mr. Joy
* Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
* Ballads
* The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
* Open, to Love
* Paul Bley/NHØP
* Jaco
* Alone, Again
* Quiet Song
* Tears
* Tango Palace
* Sonor
* Questions
* Diane
* My Standard
* Fragments
* The Paul Bley Quartet
* The Nearness of You
* Blues for Red
* Notes (with Paul Motian)
* Partners (with Gary Peacock)
* BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
* Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian)
* 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann)
* Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton)
* Changing Hands
* In the Evenings out There
* Paul Plays Carla
* Annette
* Hands On
* If We May
* Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
* Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley)
* Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
* Notes on Ornette
* Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian)
* Basics
* Nothing to Declare
* About Time

Live albums|

* Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
* Coleman Classics Volume 1
* Improvisie
* Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock)
* Japan Suite
* Axis
* Hot
* Live at Sweet Basil
* Solo in Mondsee
* Play Blue: Oslo Concert

Related articles|

* Discography

* v
* t
* e

Pat Metheny

Group albums|

| As leader|

| Pat Metheny Group|

* Pat Metheny Group (1978)
* American Garage (1979)
* Offramp (1982)
* Travels (1983)
* First Circle (1984)
* The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
* Still Life (Talking) (1987)
* Letter from Home (1989)
* The Road to You (1993)
* We Live Here (1995)
* Quartet (1996)
* Imaginary Day (1997)
* Speaking of Now (2002)
* The Way Up (2005)

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Others|

* Bright Size Life (1976)
* Watercolors (1977)
* 80/81 (1980)
* Rejoicing (1984)
* Question and Answer (1990)
* Secret Story (1992)
* Flower Hour (1992)
* Trio 99 → 00 (2000)
* Trio → Live (2000)
* Day Trip (2008)
* Tokyo Day Trip (2008)
* Unity Band (2012)
* Kin (←→) (2014)
* The Unity Sessions (2016)
* From This Place (2020)

As group member/side man|

* Jaco (1974)
* Ring (1974)
* Dreams So Real - Music of Carla Bley (1975)
* Passengers (1976)
* Shadows and Light (1980)
* Michael Brecker (1987)
* Parallel Realities (1990)
* Reunion (1990)
* Till We Have Faces (1992)
* Wish (1993)
* Blues for Pat: Live in San Francisco (1995)
* Tales from the Hudson (1996)
* Like Minds (1998)
* The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
* Time Is of the Essence (1999)
* Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (2001)
* Upojenie (2002)
* Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968–1978 (2003)
* Pilgrimage (2007)
* Quartet Live (2009)
* Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)

Solo albums|

* New Chautauqua (1979)
* Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)
* A Map of the World (1999)
* One Quiet Night (2003)
* Orchestrion (2010)
* What's It All About (2011)
* The Orchestrion Project (2013)
* Road to the Sun (2021)
* MoonDial (2024)

Collaborations|

* As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays)
* Song X (1986, Coleman)
* Electric Counterpoint (1989)
* I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield)
* Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden)
* Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall)
* Upojenie (2002, Jopek)
* Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau)
* Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
* Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn)
* Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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