After five years of work, the documentary "Jaco" has its world premiere at SXSW By Phil Gallo In the year since Jaco was announced as the first official documentary of Record Store Day, two crucial ...

Jazz great Pastorius instructs, does solo performance work, exclusive interviews, performance footage with Jeremy Jemmott, John Scofield and Kenwood Dennard; also cutting edge special features. This ...

Jaco Pastorius is still the greatest electric bass player, and evidence to support that claim—one he was known to make himself—is presented in the new documentary “Jaco,” available now on DVD, Blu-ray ...

'JACO' tells the story of Jaco Pastorius, a self-taught, larger-than-life musician who changed the course of modern music. Never-before-seen archive unveils the story of Jaco's life, his music, his ...

On Friday night, the spirit of the late Jaco Pastorius will be conjured as if in a séance upon the very same stage where Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar 48 years ago. That’s significant because in the ...

When Jaco Pastorius first met Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist and composer behind Weather Report, he had his introduction ready. “My name is John Francis Pastorius III,” he said, as Zawinul later ...