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Jeff Berlin and Jaco Pastorius
Jeff Berlin: “Look at Jaco Pastorius: clearly a genius, but misunderstood”

By Nick Wells Published

Jazz bassist Jeff Berlin debunks a myth surrounding Jaco’s early years

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Peter Gabriel In Concert At The O2 Arena, London, Britain - 21 Oct 2013, Tony Levin
Tony Levin: “D’Angelo’s Voodoo made me want to go back to school as a bassist”

By Joel McIver Published

The King Crimson bassist names four albums that shaped his sound

Bassists
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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Victor Bailey of Omar Hakim band performs on stage at Lantaren Venster on November 12, 2013 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The late Victor Bailey on "kicking ass" with Madonna and embracing Jaco’s legacy in Weather Report

By Nick Wells Published

"If I’m playing the bassline to Like A Virgin I’m going to play the hell out of it! The same way as if I were playing Teen Town"

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Jaco Pastorius (1951 - 1987) performing with Weather Report at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 1978.
Watch Jaco Pastorius go from funk to fuzz in one of his most groundbreaking bass solos

By Nick Wells Published

The self-proclaimed (and undisputed) “greatest bass player in the world” went full tilt in this unmissable performance

Bassists
Jaco Pastorius performs on stage at The North Sea Jazz Festival on July 10 1983 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jaco Pastorius talks Weather Report, playing fast, and why the bass is "the number one instrument in the world" in his first Guitar World interview from 1983

By Peter Mengaziol Published

In a freewheeling and candid chat, the late bass legend opens up to GW about improvising, his approach to the four-string and that legendary '62 Jazz Bass

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Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip: “I know I don’t play the instrument correctly! I've just tried to find my own way of expressing myself“

By Bass Player Staff Published

He got lessons from Jaco Pastorius and toured with Allan Holdsworth – now Haslip continues to push the frontiers of bass guitar with album reissues, sessions and a playing style like no other

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Felix Pastorius: ”Even if Jaco wasn’t my father, I’d still be comparing myself to other bassists”

By Mike Brooks, Joel McIver Published

Felix Pastorius on the importance of an artist's individuality, managing fans' expectations and befriending your bass

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Thundercat names his favorite basslines and explains why slap bass is so controversial

By Richard Bienstock Published

“If your feel sucks, you just suck,” says the multi-instrumentalist Dragonballer

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Billy Sheehan names 5 of his favorite bass albums

By Bass Player Staff Published

Sheehan is one of the world’s most accomplished bassists - so we can all learn from the five albums that influenced him

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