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But what makes my jaw actually hang open is when I consider that, without formal theory training and whatnot, he had the maturity, at the tender age of 26, after playing bass for only 9 years, to engineer classical Stravinsky ideas into a pop song - Wherever I lay My Hat.
It takes a particular type of artistic mind to do that. Whoever reckoned there are thousands like Pino Palladino - I think not.
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To be fair, and I love Pino as much as anyone, but what he is playing there - although a quote from The Rite of Spring - is more than likely to be a quote of Jaco quoting Stravinsky. I have been listening to all of them for decades and only recently made the conection.
http://tomkenrick.wordpress.com/category/jaco-pastorius/