Jaco Pastorius Truth, Liberty & Soul is a rare find, like a never-before-seen Picasso or Van Gogh painting. 2xHD Limited Edition, AAA cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering, incredible live album by the electric bass genius and the Word of Mouth Big Band featuring special guest, harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans, Recorded in NYC on June 27, 1982.

• Limited Edition
• All Analog Audiophile Mastering
• 45rpm 3LP 200 Gram Vinyl
• Mastered by René Laflamme
• Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering by Chris Bellman

Jaco Pastorius 45 RPM Deluxe 3LP Set — Truth, Liberty & Soul

AAA Audiophile 200-gram 45 RPM triple-disc set

Sourced from first generation analog recordings without any digital corruption

2xHD mastering on Nagra equipment by René Laflamme

Duplication from the analog master!

Cut all-analog at Bernie Grundman Mastering, on tube cutting equipment

"There have been many guitar gods, but there's never been an electric bassist as deified as Jaco Pastorius." — Michael J. Agovino

This live album by Jaco Pastorius and the Word-of-Mouth Big Band, featuring harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans as special guest, was recorded in analog 24 tracks by the Record Plant mobile truck at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC on June 27, 1982, as part of George Wein's Kool Jazz Festival. This Deluxe 45 RPM 200-gram edition is the first one to be mastered from the original 2-track master tapes that were found some 30 years later (the previous digital download versions were released from a digital remix of the 24 tracks). What we have here is the direct copy of the original pure analog 2-track mix.

The brightest star in the electric bass firmament, Jaco Pastorius burst onto the national scene in 1976 with his audacious self-titled album on Columbia Records, featuring a lineup of top jazz musicians. With his extraordinary fretless electric bass playing as the centerpiece, Jaco Pastorius created an immediate sensation with the public and the media. His signature approach employed Latin-influenced funk, lyrical solos on fretless bass, bass chords, and innovative use of harmonics.

In Jaco's work with Weather Report and beyond, the self-described "greatest bass player in the world" (an assessment shared with virtually the entire music world) established a new identity and role for his instrument and became the torchbearer for a new way of playing both technically and conceptually. But behind it all was an ever present R&B and Latin-influenced groove and a screaming rock-‘n'-roll attitude that he refined and incorporated into sophisticated jazz harmonic structures.

In addition to his extraordinary virtuosity, Jaco was also developing into an accomplished and sophisticated composer and arranger and those talents are gloriously on display on this album. The three-time Grammy Award nominee was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1988, one of only seven bassists so honored (and the only electric bassist). His legacy as a bass innovator continues to this day, more than 30 years after his untimely death in 1987.

Musicians:

WORD OF MOUTH BIG BAND
Jaco Pastorius - bass, vocals
Bob Mintzer - tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Randy Brecker - trumpet
Othello Molineaux - steel drums
Don Alias - percussion
Peter Erskine - drums

SAXOPHONES
Bob Stein - alto saxophone
Lou Marini - tenor saxophone
Frank Wess - tenor saxophone
Howard Johnson - baritone saxophone
Randy Emerick - baritone saxophone

TRUMPETS: Alan Rubin, Lew Soloff, Jon Faddis, Ron Tooley, Kenny Faulk,

TROMBONES: David Taylor, Jim Pugh, Wayne Andre,

FRENCH HORNS: John Clark, Peter Gordon

TUBA: David Bargeron

Special Guest: Toots Thielemans
(harmonica on "Three Views of a Secret," "Liberty City," "Sophisticated Lady,""Bluesette," "I Shot the Sheriff," "Mr. Fonebone" and "Fannie Mae")

Track Listing:

Side A:
Invitation

Side B:
Sophisticated Lady
Fannie May

Side C:
Okonkolé Y Trompa

Side D:
Reza / Giant Steps

Side E:
Mr. Fonebone

Side F:
Soul Intro / The Chicken

Note: The order of songs varies from the original concert to permit all the songs to fit on 3 vinyl discs.

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