Word Of Mouth (CD)

In his brief, blazing career, Jaco Pastorius proved he could do almost everything--except handle the fame that his talent brought him. His stunning 1976 debut album put the electric bass in an entirely new light, and soon he became a superstar as a member of Weather Report. He then left the group to lead his own band, in which Jaco's powerful groove and relentless flair brought together jazz, soul, calypso, Latin, rock, and other sounds. A tragic downward spiral led to his death in 1987, but he will long be remembered as a soloist, composer, accompanist, and outrageous showman without equal.

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Bass
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: October 25, 1988
• Label: Warner Bros. Records
• UPC: 075992353526
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106062185
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #31052 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2251 in Jazz (See Top 100 Jazz Bestsellers)
• #44 in Bass (See Top 100 Bass Bestsellers)

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WORD OF MOUTH was Jaco Pastorius' the first solo group recording, and it does a good deal to substantiate the widely held claims concerning the bassist's genius and wizardry. As a technician, Pastorius was untouchable, and his radical, melodic approach (he seems to play both rhythm and lead at once) forced a generation of bassists to reconceptualize their relationship to the instrument.

Pastorius' skills are on full display on this recording, as shown by the first cut, "Crisis," which lives up to the feeling of its title as a mind boggling, rapid-fire bass line tears through a tapestry of fragmentary instrumental sounds. The pieces that follow are stylistically varied and hop from Bach ("Chromatic Fantasy"), to the Beatles ("Blackbird"), to revisited swing ("Liberty City"). While the orchestrations toward the end of the album get somewhat heavy-handed, Pastorius' fluid agility and the contributions of top-drawer players such as Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker, Jack DeJohnette and harmonica player Toots Thielmans make WORD OF MOUTH a must for fusion fans.

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