This track was released in 1976 and that year for Jaco was a very busy one. “Jaco opened the door, and we just walked through”.ĭuring my years of research and studies – still ongoing – I inevitably worked on all of the most representative of Jaco’s tunes such as “Teen Town”, “Portrait of Tracy”, “Come On Come Over”, “ Cha Cha”, and “Havona”, to name a few.Īmongst the incredible volume of work that Jaco has left us, this bass solo featured on “All American Alien Boy” by the British singer-songwriter Ian Hunter, is perhaps not as well known as others but, nonetheless, spectacular. His distinctive tone, grooves, and solos seemed to come literally from another planet – like if he was an Alien Boy – and became so iconic that Jaco had influenced generations of bass players and, I am sure, more to come. Jaco Pastorius has, without a doubt, profoundly changed the way we perceive the electric bass and its role in a band.
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