It's hard to believe that it's been nearly a quarter century since Jaco Pastorius died at the outrageously young age of 35. At a time when other electric bassists like Stanley Clarke were redefining ...

Though he is celebrated as one of the great instrumentalists of postwar jazz, Jaco Pastorius was also a great composer, who showed a glimpse of what he could do with large ensembles in the short-lived ...

There’s never been an electric bassist as deified as Jaco Pastorius, who had the swagger of a stadium rocker and the sophistication of a jazz artist. His 1982 Lincoln Center concert is newly released.