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Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Manolo Badrena, Alex Acuna, Jaco Pastorius performing live onstage

“It was one of the few tunes that the band didn’t try to play live, but it’s definitive Jaco”: Discovering Jaco Pastorius and the making of Havona

By Nick Wells last updated

Inside Jaco’s Weather Report audition and the recording of Heavy Weather's standout track

Jaco Pastorious performs on stage with Weather Report at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1981

Watch Will Lee and Richard Bona cover Liberty City by Jaco Pastorius in this exclusive clip from the Beneath The Bassline documentary

By Nick Wells published

Video Jaco Pastorius would have been 71 this week. Watch our exclusive clip as Will Lee, Richard Bona, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, Robert Trujillo, Nik West and Laurence Cottle remember the genius of Jaco

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Christian McBride: “I was doing things on the double bass that I wasn’t supposed to. It helps to be a rebel sometimes“

By Andy Hughes published

The jazz and session maestro looks back at his career in bass