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| | The Birthday Concert | | | Music Artist : | | Jaco Pastorius | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1995-09-26 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Soul Intro/The Chicken
2. Continuum
3. Invitation
4. Three Views of a Secret
5. Liberty City
6. Punk Jazz
7. Happy Birthday
8. Reza
9. Domingo
10. Band Intros
11. Amerika
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 there's more than one jaco
Submitted on: 2009-11-12 |
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| just 'discovered' jaco recently - for all bassists, funk/jazz lovers, people with ears, this is a must-buy, along with his self-titled album two of the best records i've listened to in a long time! |
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A Jaco Classic!
Submitted on: 2009-09-13 |
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| This stellar live set features Jaco Pastorius at the height of his powers as one of the greatest musicians of all time. It documents Jaco's 30th birthday party held at Mr Pips in Fort Lauderdale FL Dec 1st 1981. For me it's hard to put into words how great the music on this album really is, all I really can say is it must be experienced to truly be appreciated. It brings together players from Jaco's early years on the south florida scene and guys from all the previous bands he had been in to date. In my opinion what really makes this record special is having the saxophone duo of Mike Brecker & Bob Mintzer as the principal soloists. The sparks of improvisational fury created between these two is intense to say the least. Of the two I think Micheal Brecker sounds the best he was awesome on this date, breathing fire through his tenor fluid and with a seemingly endless supply of ideas. In the drum chair is the great Peter Erskine who played with Jaco in Weather Report and the rhythmic hookup these two developed as a rhythm section on the road is shown here in full splendor. Along side Erskine is Don alias on percussion I think one of the great jazz percussionists to come along in history, the music wouldn't be the same without his added grooves on conga & bata drums. Jaco loved him some world percussion sounds and its all over almost everything he recorded in his career. Thats the core quintet, you've also got full trumpet & sax section two steel drummers french horn and tuba for a grand total of 23 players. The music is taken from two shows that where played that evening thats why the music doesn't flow from song to song like it was one continuos set cause its not. Music wise you get most of Jaco's classic compositions. They start off with a funky version of the Pee Wee Ellis tune The Chicken one of my favorites then they do a short sweet version of Continuum onto the center piece of the album the Kaper master piece Invitation which is played only by a quintet with Brecker & Mintzer as the soloists. This performance is mind blowing each player turning in a astounding musical feet during its 20 minute length. There's also Three Views Of a Secret,Liberty City, Punk Jazz a loose version of Reza & Domingo which is one of Jaco's oldest compositions written when he was part of Wayne Cochran & The C.C Riders and a brass reading of Happy Birthday,after all it was a birthday party. To all that complain that the big band over shadow jaco's playing are missing the point of Jaco's big band writing, they forget that despite Jaco's amazing talent as a bassist he was still the bass player who's main job is to support the melody & harmony,Jaco knewn that, which is why he's not overplaying all over everyones parts. He cuts loose on The Chicken with his funky signature 16th note muted funk & burns on Invitation & Domingo. I recommend this album to anyone who appreciates great big band jazz fusion. It's a classic! |
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 4 1/2 stars?
Submitted on: 2007-01-19 |
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| I don't understand the reviews of this album. Jaco was an amazing jazz bassist. But he is so overshadowed by all the brass instruments on this album that the end result is painful to listen to. I counted on the CD insert four trumpets, four sax, four trombones, plus a french horn or two. I doubt he was happy with the end result, I hope it didn't add to his life ending pain. Bill M. |
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It's A Great CD
Submitted on: 2007-01-03 |
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| This is a great CD if you like bass guitar playing. I have really enjoyed it! |
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Good Evening!
Submitted on: 2006-08-22 |
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The live set celebrating the 30th birthday of Jaco Pastorius features band members from each part of his career.
The gig is what one would expect from a band performing before an appreciative audience, and that is what it makes it so special. The solos are great and Jaco's range as a bassist is captured in the nearly 70 minutes of music.
My only criticisim is each song is separated as if recorded in a studio. A live set - especially on CD - should do its best not to edit the way the music was presented to - and the response from - the audience. But that falls on the record company.
The hot rendition of Jaco's classic, Liberty City, is worth the price of the CD. The music is as fresh today as it was back in 1981.
It truly was a good evening! |
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