Pat Metheny & Jaco Pastorius - All The Things You Are( different version live in 1974)

*This is NOT the same version as the one I uploaded in a previous video.* Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius & Bob Moses live in 1974. Jaco was 22 and a half years old at the time of this performance.

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Music

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• Jazz
• rare
• live
• unreleased
• Pat
• Metheny
• guitar
• Jaco
• Pastorius
• bass
• solo
• Bob
• Moses
• drums
• trio
• virtuoso
• improvisation
• fretless

[FiveHundo500]

You can actually hear Jaco skating most of the changes if you even listen remotely closely.

[Musicenthusiasm]

@FiveHundo500

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "skating the changes"? I've never heard that term before.

[FiveHundo500]

Playing bebop changes with exceptional vocabulary and elegance, as Metheny does here despite Jaco's ridiculous bass line, requires a very specific type of mind. Jaco was more oriented toward modal music, wherein there is not a lot of inherent change and a lot of creative space. Weather report is a format in which he shines. Some of this straight-ahead stuff with him is just so lackluster. He's not even listening to Pat if you pay attention closely.

[Musicenthusiasm]

@FiveHundo500

I see what you mean. While I think Jaco's accompaniment is fine, his solo reveals that he's not as comfortable in this setting as Metheny is. I agree that Jaco thrived in modal music, where he didn't have to "abide" to lots of changes. But still, Metheny must have held Jaco in some regard as a jazz player, as he chose to play trio dates with him for four successive years....

[vomitron5000]

What pat does to these changes can only be described as nasty. If this was a porn and those changes were a girl, it would be banned in 48 states.

[Musicenthusiasm]

@vomitron5000

LOL! What do you think about Jaco's solo?

[3nd3r16]

@FiveHundo500 what about donna lee?

[RATMblink182]

@FiveHundo500 its true he does have a modal feel in this one

[PutItAway101]

I hear three separate pieces going on simultaneously. Seems like the three guys are aware of each other just enough to not go completely wrong, but not much musical conversation between them. Jaco and Pat going nuts in different ways and the drummer keeping a safe distance from both of them.

[dirkitjes]

Pat´s phrasing is so amazing...

[pipocinyd]

Jaco's playing the changes, but the bassline is a little wacky.

[dandad11]

He's not skating. He's mostly leading the progression by 1-3 beats. You can hear him shift gears after the first pass. Beautiful.

[basgalgemba]

@Musicenthusiasm

i think jacos solo has a lot more musicality in it. i find it's soothing to listen to him after pat methenys note massacre...

[HenryLeegomez]

Yo creo que el arte fue hecho no solo para disfrutarlo sino ademas para que las personas faltas de talento y capacidad de goce lo critiquen.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

@Musicenthusiasm i agree with you about the jaco assessment. same goes for allan holdsworth; he could never cover bebop changes the way metheny/pass/parker/trane etc could. i have the same problem. at a certain point i chose the 'modal' over the 'bebop' mindset, for a variety of reasons. and glad to see you know that one is not inherently better than the other, that is important to see...

[FiveHundo500]

@Musicenthusiasm That has always puzzled me, actually.