This inspired piece of bassage from the febrile fingers of the late great Jaco Pastorius graced the smouldering live Joni Mitchel album, “Shadows & Light” and has long exerted a spell over me. I finally settled to transcribe the first verse and interlude and discovered a wealth of fascinating lines, infused with great rhythmic and melodic sense and a strong R & B flavour.
The tabs are available for download here:
Have fun!
Nat: thank you for this amazing aid – literally on the same day I was starting to try to unpack this bass line. It is an amazing Jaco performance, and even better seen on YouTube with Pat Metheny, Jaco and Joni dazzling.
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Thanks for that! It’s a great bassline! Hopefully I’ll get round to finishing it one day…