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Extrait de LIVE
IN ITALY , avec: Jaco PASTORIUS
(bass), Bireli LAGRENE (guitar) and Peter BÜLKE
(drums).
Biographies:
Jaco PASTORIUS:
"b. John Francis Pastorius, 1 December 1951,
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 12 September 1987, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Encouraged by his father, a drummer
and vocalist, to pursue a career in music, Pastorius learned
to play bass, drums, guitar, piano and saxophone while in
his teens. As a result of a football injury to his arm,
his ambitions were mainly orientated towards the drums,
but he soon found work playing bass for visiting pop and
soul acts. After backing the Temptations and the Supremes,
he developed a cult following, and his reputation spread.
In 1975, Bobby Colomby, drummer with Blood, Sweat And Tears,
was impressed enough to arrange the recording of Pastorius's
first album, and a year later Pat Metheny asked him to play
bass on his own first album for ECM Records, additionally
he worked with Joni Mitchell. However, the most important
stage in Pastorius's career came in 1976: joining Weather
Report to record the highly influential Heavy Weather, his
astonishing technique on the fretless bass and his flamboyant
behaviour on stage consolidated the band's popularity and
boosted his own image to star status. He established his
own band, Word Of Mouth, in 1980, and they enjoyed three
years of successful tours, while Pastorius himself recorded
intermittently with some of the top musicians in jazz. However,
Pastorius suffered from alcoholism and manic depression.
In 1987, after increasing bouts of inactivity, he suffered
fatal injuries in a brawl outside the Midnight Club in his
home town of Fort Lauderdale. Pastorius was one of the most
influential bass players since Charles Mingus, and extended
the possibilities of the electric bass as a melodic instrument
in a way that has affected many bassists since. " (source
http://music.yahoo.com/)
Bireli LAGRENE:
"b. 4 September 1966. Saverne, Alsace,
France. The son of Fiso Lagrene, a popular guitarist in
pre-war France, Lagrene displayed a prodigious talent as
a very young child. Born into a gypsy community, his origins
and his fleet, inventive playing style inevitably generated
comparisons with Django Reinhardt. In 1978, he won a prize
at a festival at Strasbourg and subsequently made a big
impact during a televised gypsy festival. In his early teenage
years Lagrene toured extensively playing concerts and festivals
across Europe, often accompanied by distinguished jazz artists
such as Benny Carter, Benny Goodman , Stephane Grappelli
and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. He also made his first
record Routes To Django, which helped to prove that early
estimates of his capabilities were not excessive. An outstanding
technician, Lagrene has revealed influences other than Reinhardt,
happily incorporating bebop phraseology, rock rhythms and
Brazilian music into his work. By the late 80s he had moved
substantially from his early Reinhardt-style to fully embrace
jazz-rock and other electronically-aided fusions, a shift
which, while extending his popularity to a wider audience,
tended to lower his standing among jazz purists. In mid-summer
1991, he was one of several leading guitarists featured
at the International Guitar Festival in Seville, Spain."
(source http://music.yahoo.com/)
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