Excellent, frank book about the life of Jaco Pastorius. Includes CD. Currently in the post to Geek99. So contact him to borrow after he's finished with it.
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I met Jaco very briefly near to his demise when I was living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla in the 1980s.
He wandered into an almost empty bar on N Federal Highway one afternoon where I was having a beer with a couple of Canadian guys.
There was an old-timer house jazz band playing and he asked them if he could sit in on a number. They agreed. The guys at my table got all animated and couldn't believe I'd never heard of Jaco or Weather report! I was 20 and into punk/rock.
I went for a jimmy and Jaco was in there tidying his hair up - he was in a bad state, sleeping rough etc at that time.
I had no idea how famous/infamous he was and struck up a conversation with him and told him I hoped he'd liven the band up a bit!
He didn't disappoint. After playing along with some jazz standard for a couple of minutes he cranked the old boy's amp up to full totally drowning out the band. It's a long time ago but I remember him doing some fast shredding type stuff at the top end of the fretboard, down on one knee! Afterwards he wandered back out the way he came in.
A few weeks later I heard he'd been killed.
I never discovered his music until recently through youtube, After reading this book, the encounter I had made sense.