He died in 1987 from a physical beating sustained while trying to break into the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale.
Such episodes made him a pariah in the music business and toward the end of his life, he had become a street person, reportedly sighted in drug-infested inner-city hangouts. From 1980 to 1984, he toured and recorded with his own band, the innovative Word of Mouth that fluctuated in size from a large combo to a big band.Īlas, Pastorius became overwhelmed by mental problems, exacerbated by drugs and alcohol in the mid-'80s, leading to several embarrassing public incidents (one was a violent crack-up on-stage at the Hollywood Bowl in mid-set at the 1984 Playboy Jazz Festival). Outside Weather Report, he found himself in constant demand as a sessionman and producer, playing on Joni Mitchell, Blood Sweat and Tears, Paul Bley, Bireli Lagrene and Ira Sullivan albums - and his first eponymous solo album for Epic in 1976 was hailed as a tour de force. By 1976, he had been invited to join Weather Report, where he remained until 1981, gradually becoming a third lead voice along with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Everything started to come together for him quickly once he started playing with another rookie fusionmeister, Pat Metheny, around 1974. He and Stanley Clarke were the towering influences on their instrument in the 1970s.īorn in Pennsylvania, Pastorius grew up in Fort Lauderdale, where he played with visiting R&B and pop acts while still a teenager and built a reputation as a local legend. He also sported a strutting, dancing, flamboyant performing style and posed a further triple-threat as a talented composer, arranger and producer. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic imagination, Pastorius made his fretless electric bass leap out from the depths of the rhythm section into the front line with fluid machine-gun-like passages that demanded attention. The tune gained greater exposure with versions by jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius.Jaco Pastorius was a meteor who blazed on to the scene in the 1970s, only to flame out tragically in the 1980s.
" The Chicken" or simply " Chicken" is an instrumental funk tune composed by Pee Wee Ellis that was the B-side to James Brown's 1969 single " The Popcorn". ( February 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies too much on references to primary sources.
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